On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > Paul McFerrin wrote: >> What exactly is: "local package directory". > > It's the directory where setup.exe keeps local copies of all the packages it > installs, which you select on the fourth screen of setup.exe. > >> My directory (/updates) is >> void of any *.ini files and it still complains. The only file "close" >> in my whole installation is a "setup-2.ini" which always seem to get >> re-created. Is maybe the mirror-site has an out-of-date .ini file? >> (/updates/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.internode.on.net%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f) > > Nah, it's maybe because I had my head on back-to-front when I wrote that > first reply: > >>>> "The current .ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe ..." > > What you actually need to do is download a fresh copy of setup-1.7.exe from > the cygwin website. 'scuse my confusion. > > cheers, > DaveK >
I think it is more referring to the it just downloaded from the mirror server. I got that error as well and had to just update to a newer setup-1.7.exe file. Robert Pendell shi...@elite-systems.org "A perfect world is one of chaos." CAcert Assurer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
