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 cygwin-
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 a
> > 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 a
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 forge
> 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
gett
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 wron
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
