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Re: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again?
Robert Pendell <shinji+cygwin <at> elite-systems.org> writes:
>On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Paul wrote:
>> I managed to kluge a method to compare my installed packages with those
>> downloaded and recorded in setup.log, thus identifying potentially missing
>> packages and confirming that they will probably not be a problem. The
>> listing of installed packages was gotten using cygcheck while the setup.log
>> contained all the packages that successfully downloaded. I removed all the
>> extraneous information in the 2 files that did not relate to packages, used
>> vim...to make the formatting [the same] between the 2 files, then sorted the
>> packages by name...
and used vim's diff function to see what files were in the cygcheck info but not
in the setup.log info (forgot to mention this).
>> Here are the...packages [not downloaded]:
>>
>> Obsolete
>> --------
>> _autorebase 000164-1
>> _update-info-dir 01088-1
>> libpng12 1.2.50-2
>> libpng14 1.4.12-3
>> libpng14-devel 1.4.12-3
>> vala-libcanberra-gtk 0.29-1
>> w32api 9999-1
>>
>> Not obsolete
>> ------------
>> libpoppler19 0.18.4-2
>>
>> I determined whether a package was obsolete by using the cygwin's setup.exe,
>> putting the versionless package name into the Search field, and toggling the
>> switch for hiding obsolete packages. I'm not too worried about the 1 missing
>> non-obsolete package, since setup.exe will prompt you to include packages
>> that are needed to fulfill dependencies.
Actually, since I'll be installing from CD, I better fetch the 1 missing
non-obsolete file as well. Setup won't be able to fulfill dependencies for
which the file is not on CD.
>> ...I was surprised to see the obsolescence of autorebase. It was just
>> recently made fully functional. Perhaps it has been folded into another
>> package. I browsed the cygwin website & documentation to find release notes
>> that might explain this, but no luck. I also tried googling for release
>> notes, in vain.
>
> It isn't obsolete. All obsolete packages get assigned to _obsolete group.
> _autorebase is assigned to _PostInstallLast and is still an active group. It
> is likely hidden by default to minimize confusion.
I searched http://cygwin.com/setup.html and http://cygwin.com/packages for
mention of package "groups", _obsolete, and _PostInstallLast. Couldn't
anything. Are such details available to noncontributors? Can I also assume
that "_update-info-dir 01088-1" is not obsolete?
Also, I was wondering if cygwin comes with release notes. I wasn't able to find
any in the search described in my last post.
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