However, if a feature like that were to be implemented, I'd rather see
it in those annoying checkboxes at the end. You know, Add an icon to
the desktop and Add an icon to the start menu. I've unchecked those
boxes about 20 bezillion times, and every time setup forgets and asks me
Not remembering what was installed seems like a bug to me.
- Alexey.
Andrew Schulman wrote:
New feature-- probably unlikely given the current difficulty just in
getting bugs fixed, and that the current setup utility will probably be
scrapped altogether in favor of something better.
However, if
Ugh, top-posting... Oh, well...
This behavior is by design. Setup doesn't remember the source packages
that were installed -- only the binary ones. One way to fix this would be
to introduce dummy (empty) binary packages for the two source-only
packages -- feel free to propose this on the
I usually install everything, but always have to unselect two source
only packages (setup and gcc-testsuite). Is it possible to remember that
they are already installed and not to offer to reinstall them every time?
- Alexey.
Max Bowsher wrote:
Version 2.459
- Repair the broken detection of
I usually install everything, but always have to unselect two source
only packages (setup and gcc-testsuite). Is it possible to remember that
they are already installed and not to offer to reinstall them every time?
New feature-- probably unlikely given the current difficulty just in
Andrew Schulman wrote:
However, if a feature like that were to be implemented, I'd rather see
it in those annoying checkboxes at the end. You know, Add an icon to
the desktop and Add an icon to the start menu. I've unchecked those
boxes about 20 bezillion times, and every time setup forgets
Version 2.459
- Repair the broken detection of wrongly-sized package files.
- Fix setup keeping open handles to every tarball it installs during a run.
- Fix a miscellany of error-reporting deficiencies.
- Close stdin, to protect against rogue postinstall scripts attempting to
wait for user
Installed the latest coreutils OK.
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Max Bowsher wrote:
Version 2.459
Updated cygwin to 1.5.12-1 (finally), it seems to work ok on my main
devel box which is an NT4 system.
Gerrit
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... this release appears in my testing to fix the hang
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as side-effect of other bugfixes.
Yes, confirmed. New-install-all-in-one worked with XP SP2 on two machines.
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