Re: New setup.exe release candidate - unhandled exception

2004-12-24 Thread John P. Rouillard
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >From: "Max Bowsher" >Subject: New setup.exe release candidate - please test > [...] >http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.459.exe > [...] >Please test - if no regressions are discovered in the ne

Re: New setup.exe release candidate - please test

2004-12-23 Thread fergus
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.459.exe > ... this release appears in my testing to fix the hang > when a new install-everything setup is attempted, > as side-effect of other bugfixes. Yes, confirmed. New-install-all-in-one worked with XP SP2 on two machines. Fergus -- Unsubscrib

Re: New setup.exe release candidate - please test

2004-12-23 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
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 -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: New setup.exe release candidate - please test

2004-12-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Installed the latest coreutils OK. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Bowsher > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:29 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: New setup.exe release candi

New setup.exe release candidate - please test

2004-12-23 Thread Max Bowsher
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 input

RE: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Collins
r [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Setup.exe release-candidate > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > When using the setup-snapshot setup-20020315.exe for > > "install from local directory", I

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-19 Thread Ralph Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > When using the setup-snapshot setup-20020315.exe for > "install from local directory", I get multiple "Can't open > (null) for reading" errors. I'm getting the same thing with the setup.exe downloaded from http://cygwin.com/setup.exe tonight. At a guess, I'd say I got the

RE: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:50 AM > > They would say "Something like that was planned eventually anyway - > > thank you very much for helping". > > OK! - I'll put somehing together - but in that case, what i

RE: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:32 PM > > At 11:00 AM 3/15/2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > > >Hi - Could someone tell me what the reason behind making setup put > packages > > >in directories named for the mirror they ca

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-19 Thread Max Bowsher
> At 11:00 AM 3/15/2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > >Hi - Could someone tell me what the reason behind making setup put packages > >in directories named for the mirror they came from? I'm sure there was a > >good reason, I just can't figure it out. > > It's to support selecting packages from multiple mi

Setup.exe release-candidate - final edition

2002-03-17 Thread Robert Collins
http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020317.exe is a link to a setup.exe that appears to have solved the win98 display problem... mentioned here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg00830.html I'd like to thank Jan for offering to help, as when I was arranging reference material for

RE: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-16 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 12:13 AM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Setup.exe release-candidate > > > "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Robert, I think I've reported this too, about a month ago. I've got an old (P133) windows98 box here, that still exhibits this problem. That's with %%% $Id: ChangeLog,v 2.194.2.13 2002/03/15 14:27:49 rbcollins Exp $ $Revision: 2.194.2.13

RE: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Collins
backwards compatability for future setup.ini's. Rob -Original Message- From: Kiran Prakash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setup.exe release-candidate Hello, I use Win98SE, and I find setup-20020315.exe impossible t

RE: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Kiran Prakash
Hello,   I use Win98SE, and I find setup-20020315.exeimpossible to use.   There are a couple of problems that I noticed.first, no packages appear after the first few packages,as you can see in both the attached bitmaps.   Also, the end of package name is obscured.   Both occur in all three m

RE: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Robert, Mangled URLs, somehow. At 19:00 2002-03-15, Robert Collins wrote: >... > > > o When changing to > > "Partial View" the package title line doesn't go all the way > > to the window border (there's a white space for a missing > > vertical scrollbar). Solved if resizing some of the columns

RE: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Hack Kampbjørn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 5:36 AM > OK, some comments then: Thank you. > o It's not possible to get back to the chooser screen (if > the window is > hidden) by click on the task in the task-bar. Only by u

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! >> Sorry, I know it's not at all helpful to say "Still flakey on 98/SE, >> and I >> haven't a clue how to fix it either" but if none of us said this, you >> wouldn't know that it was still flakey on 98/SE. I won't attach anything, >> but screen maintenance is all shot up. Thanks for try

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Hack Kampbjørn
Robert Collins wrote: > > Hi folk, > the setup.exe setup200202 branch has a final pre-release > snapshot available at > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020315.exe. > > IMPORTANT! This is your final chance to report release-critical bugs > with this version. Feedback to [EMA

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread S. Cowles
When using the setup-snapshot setup-20020315.exe for "install from local directory", I get multiple "Can't open (null) for reading" errors. Setup then aborts without going through the other packages in the queue for installation. I found no installation messages in setup.log.full after the abort

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:00 AM 3/15/2002, Max Bowsher wrote: >Hi - Could someone tell me what the reason behind making setup put packages >in directories named for the mirror they came from? I'm sure there was a >good reason, I just can't figure it out. It's to support selecting packages from multiple mirrors. Se

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Hi - Could someone tell me what the reason behind making setup put packages in directories named for the mirror they came from? I'm sure there was a good reason, I just can't figure it out. Thanks, Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: ht

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Jonathon Merz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, I know it's not at all helpful to say "Still flakey on 98/SE, and I > haven't a clue how to fix it either" but if none of us said this, you > wouldn't know that it was still flakey on 98/SE. I won't attach anything, > but screen maintenance is all shot up. Thanks

RE: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 12:54 AM > If those of > us who need to keep a local copy of the current setup.exe > v.2.125.2.10, is there any reason why it shouldn't work with > future setup.ini's, even afte

Re: Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread fergus
Sorry, I know it's not at all helpful to say "Still flakey on 98/SE, and I haven't a clue how to fix it either" but if none of us said this, you wouldn't know that it was still flakey on 98/SE. I won't attach anything, but screen maintenance is all shot up. Thanks for trying so hard to get this ri

Setup.exe release-candidate

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Collins
Hi folk, the setup.exe setup200202 branch has a final pre-release snapshot available at http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020315.exe. IMPORTANT! This is your final chance to report release-critical bugs with this version. Feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please. We have sporadic