On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:24:38PM -0600, Heath Kehoe wrote: > >Richard Toy wrote: >> Both at work and home I install Cygwin on several machines and I keep >> a local cache of the Cygwin install files to reduce the time to >> update. >> >> I always run setup.exe and perform a full install of everything. >> >> Since upgrading to the latest version of setup, when performing the >> local install from the local cache I get apparently random warning >> boxes with the following error text: - >> >> Can't open file://L:\ods\rtoy\Cygnus/ for reading: Unrecognisable file >> format. >> >> The boxes (51 occurences) can be simply clicked away and the install >> completes. >> >> Once complete a check of the installation (cygcheck -cv) shows that it >> is complete (all OK) >> >> The same error occurs in both the work (Windows XP) and home (Windows >> 7) environments. In both cases the local cache is accessed through a >> mapped network drive. >> >[snip] >> Has anyone else seen this? >> >> Richard >> >We're seeing the same issue. We have a mirror of the cygwin tree (which >is updated through rsync) which is made available on a network share, >mapped to a drive letter. When running setup we pick 'Install from Local >Directory' and usually select all packages. > >And we too get a bunch of those 'Unrecognisable file format' popups. >Makes installation a pain as those popup errors all have to be dismissed >for the install process to continue.
If you want to get a problem fixed, the way to do it is to provide details, not commiseration. What version of setup.exe are you running? What specific steps are necessary to duplicate the problem? cgf -- 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
