Crashing setup.exe

[robertc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of 
> fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
> Sent: Friday, 7 June 2002 10:29 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
> Subject: Crashing setup.exe
> 
> 
> >> Pavel Tsekov said :
> >> So ... if you remove the setup.ini from the local
> >> package directory, setup.exe won't crash.
> 
> Do you mean that separating the file named setup.ini from the 
> folder named
> release/ and then running the executable named setup.exe, 
> will result in a
> glitch-free installation or upgrade? If this is so and I have not
> misunderstood you, then I have three questions. (A) How are the two
> different locations of setup.ini and release/ to be 
> identified to setup.exe
> so that setup.exe knows about them? 

The location of cached files is relative to each cached setup.ini.

> (B) At the moment, these two items
> "arrive" together in a folder with a name like
> ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fmirrors%2fsources.redhat.com%2fc
> ygwin or some
> such: should one therefore manually separate them after 
> download but before
> installation? 

No. One SHOULD NOT TOUCH the cygwin packages directory. Setup reserves
the right to do -anything- it wants to that dir, including zapping the
content, moving files etc etc.

> (C) Does your cure apply to all O/S as far as 
> you know? (If I
> can discover the answer to (A) then I will try to sort out 
> (B) and *C) for
> myself. Thank you.)

It's a bug, and will be addressed asap.

Rob


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