Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have selected some packages checked in the partial view which packages >> are active, then when installation strted several packages were >> installed which were not selected. E.g. autoconf, automake related and >> such. >> >> Since I explicitely excluded these form upgrade because I use local >> patched versions, I'm somewhat shocked now. It is really a mess. My >> local versions got uninstalled.
> 2005/11/25 14:31:42 Adding required dependency autoconf2.1: Selecting > version 2.13-1 for installation. > 2005/11/25 14:31:42 Adding required dependency autoconf2.5: Selecting > version 2.59-2 for installation. > 2005/11/25 14:31:42 Adding required dependency automake1.4: Selecting > version 1.4p6-2 for installation. > 2005/11/25 14:31:42 Adding required dependency automake1.9: Selecting > version 1.9.6-1 for installation. > 2005/11/25 14:31:42 Adding required dependency libtool1.5: Selecting > version 1.5.20-2 for installation. > 2005/11/25 14:31:42 Adding required dependency openssl097: Selecting > version 0.9.7i-1 for installation. > 2005/11/25 14:31:42 Adding required dependency sysvinit: Selecting > version 2.84-4 for installation. > Libtool requires autoconf, automake, but what requires sysvinit? None of > the selected packages, but GConf2 which I have installed. > > I'm also pretty sure that I have decided to NOT remove clear and to NOT > update to ncurses latest. And the same for for libpcre. Now I have NO > clear at my system, no libpcre anymore. > > I think, this is bad. I cannot unselect the packages because they are > automatically selected after the package chooser. I never wanted to > upgrade my libtool installation, btw. why was libtool selected at all? > > It is really a good thing that setup notes that there MAY BE some packages > missing to fulfill requirements, however, it cannot know it for sure, i.e. > if I use my own versions of some packages, and It MUST NOT add packages > to the installation list on its own behalf! > > > This setup.exe is trash, I'll revert to some older version now. Or you could untick the box that says "Install these packages to meet dependencies". Did that screen not appear? > 2005/11/25 14:33:15 Installing > file://G:\NewZealand\mirrors.rcn.net\pub\sourceware\cygwin/release/GNOME/share d-mime-info/shared-mime-info-0.16-1.tar.bz2 > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 13 Permission denied > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 Failed to open > cygfile:///usr/share/mime/application/andrew-inset.xml for writing. > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 13 Permission denied > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 Failed to open > cygfile:///usr/share/mime/application/andrew-inset.xml.new for writing. > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 Unable to install file > cygfile:///usr/share/mime/application/andrew-inset.xml > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 13 Permission denied > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 Failed to open > cygfile:///usr/share/mime/application/andrew-inset.xml for writing. > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 13 Permission denied > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 Failed to open > cygfile:///usr/share/mime/application/andrew-inset.xml.new for writing. > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 Unable to install file > cygfile:///usr/share/mime/application/andrew-inset.xml > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 13 Permission denied > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 Failed to open > cygfile:///usr/share/mime/application/andrew-inset.xml for writing. > 2005/11/25 14:33:19 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 13 Permission denied > > [... continued about 411000 lines ...] Hmm. Looking at that file on my install, it's got rwx------ perms. Were you running as the same user when you originally installed that? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....