Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:24:38PM -0600, Heath Kehoe wrote:
[snip]
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
Wasn't meant to be commiserative. I went to report this issue and did a
search first to see if anyone else has seen it.
- Using setup.exe version 2.677
- We have a local mirror which is updated using rsync (daily)
- The local mirror is accessed as a network share on the Windows
machines, which is mapped to a drive letter.
- In setup.exe, select 'Install from Local Directory'
- The root directory is: C:\cygwin
- Install for: All users
- Local package directory for us is: M:\apps\cygwin (the network share)
- Select all packages to install (if it's a new installation. For an
upgrade we take the default selections)
- During the installation, we get pop-ups that say "can't open
M:\apps\cygwin for reading: Unrecognisable file format". Those pop-ups
must be dismissed for the installation to finish, and they happen many
times (52 times for a new, full installation)
- Once setup is complete, Cygwin appears to work OK.
- We've observed this on both fresh new installations as well as with
upgrades from 1.5
- We've observed this on Win7 64bit and on XP 32bit.
These lines appear throughout setup.log.full and correspond to the popups:
2010/01/27 17:27:12 mbox note: Can't open file://M:\apps\cygwin\Current/
for reading: Unrecognisable file format
Hopefully this is enough detail :)
-heath
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