setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"
Perry Hutchison
perryh@pluto.rain.com
Sat May 4 22:14:00 GMT 2002
> > When I read the instructions a month ago, I got the=20
> > impression that 'install from internet' would not save the=20
> > downloaded packages after installing them. Perhaps the=20
> > documentation (and/or the behavior of
> > setup) has changed since then.
>
> It hasn't changed in years. Can you point me to the area of
> documentation that suggested the incorrect behaviour to you?
It's www.cygwin.com/download.html
Even now, I see nothing there to suggest that an "install from internet"
would also retain the uninstalled packages. I visualize it downloading
a package, installing it, and then deleting the downloaded file before
downloading the next package, so as to minimize disk requirements.
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