RE: Broken package selection for a full install

["Morris Walton" <mwalton at telesyn dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
Behalf
> Of Daniel F. Dickinson
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 2:41 PM
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: Re: Broken package selection for a full install
> 
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 16:35, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote:
> >
> >>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Daniel,
> >>>
> >>>If you're willing to temporarily rename the existing installation
root
> >>>(and the registry keys) and reinstall from scratch, please post the
> >>>/var/log/setup.log and /var/log/setup.log.full from an install
session
> >>>that exhibits the above problem.  Note that /var/log/setup.log.full
is
> >>>overwritten every time you run setup.  After the install, you can
> rename
> >>>the old directory back (and the registry keys, if you did something
> fancy
> >>>with mounts or options -- otherwise they should be identical).
> >>
> >>I did that, but didn't get any errors.  Does setup store *any*
> >>information about package selections, and if so where?
> >
> >
> > In the installation root under /etc/setup
> >
> >
> >>  I'd like to help
> >>with the debug, but it seems that since my manual package selection
that
> >>made things work, that I can't replicate the error without removing
all
> >>traces of my package selections.
> >
> >
> > My renaming the installation root and registry keys as per Igors
> > suggestion, you have removed all trace of your package selections.
> 
> Thanks.  I think I figured out what was wrong.  I selected Install on
> the root of the package tree, then used the view radio buttons (to see
> what they are for).  I think I reselected Install on the root after
> that, but I can't swear to it and can't test it at the moment (I'm in
> middle of a move and project), but in three or four weeks I'll
probably
> get a chance to verify if that was the problem.
> 
[Morris] I don't see how this would be a problem?  Shouldn't "install"
work?
> 
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