On Jun 29 13:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:46:00PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:01:52AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Jun 24 19:52, Achim Gratz wrote: > >>> > >>> May I suggest that this sort of link (and the similar one in > >>> cygwinports) has potential to break mirror scripts in bad ways? Not > >>> quite as bad, but linking x86_64 -> 64bit also results in duplicates > >>> that aren't serving a good purpose. > >> > >>The x86 symlink break the "Install from directory" function of > >>setup.exe. It runs into some endless loop. If I remove the symlinks it > >>works as usual. I don't know why it does that at all. It has no > >>business reading these symlinks. If nobody beats me to it, I'll > >>investigate next week. > > > >Are you saying that this is happening with a CVS version of setup.exe?
No, this occurs with the current 2.774 version from the home page. > >If not, it seems impossible that this symlink would cause an issue on a > >local install. > > > >Or, maybe you're copying the whole release area to your work area as > >you proposed in the cygwin list. We're using a local mirror and "Install from directory" from the local mirror for many, many years and it always worked fine. > I didn't try to duplicate this but I did just move the symlink down a > level. There are now x86 and x86_64 directories containing symlinks > to the respective release areas. That is what it should have looked > like. This still doesn't work with the current 2.774. For some reason it tries to read *all* setup.ini files, the top level one, plus the two in x86 and x86_64. I just built and tried the CVS 2.802 version. After pressing the "Next" button in the "Select Local Package Directory" dialog, it hangs for about 5 minutes, jumps over the progress page in then comes up with a broken package list: - Only one category called "Misc" containing all package. - No short description column. - It suggests to install all packages, rather than just to update the newer ones. The 64 bit 2.802 executable SEGVs immediately at startup. I'll just not debug this on Sunday. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
