Installer freezes in windows-2022 GitHub Action

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-10-21 02:56, Michele Locati via Cygwin wrote:
>> I have had the following failure 2 out of 4 times (see [1]):
>>
>> Program 'setup.exe' failed to run: The specified executable is not a
>> valid application for this OS platform.
> 
> The problem no longer occurs.
> I think it was probably an issue caused by a malformed executable in a
> mirror/CDN (which would explain why it worked sometimes and sometimes
> not).

That's kind of worrying, but also kind of typical of MS service expectations ;^>

You could download and install Windows gnupg2 stable (2.4.5 current):

	https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2
	https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2.sig
	https://gnupg.org/signature_key.asc

to check that download and install; and use that with:

	https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
	https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe.sig
	https://cygwin.com/key/pubring.asc

to check the Cygwin Setup program; and (example) mirror:

	https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.xz
	https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.xz.sig
	https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini.sig

to check compressed and decompressed setup data.

Unfortunately sha512.sum checksum files are no longer reliable, unless they have 
a later time stamp than the other downloads, as they are updated asynchronously.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry