On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Paul wrote: > Robert Pendell <shinji+cygwin <at> elite-systems.org> writes: >> If you can find the .tmp files then try deleting them and redownloading from >> another mirror. It is possible the file is failing the validation check and >> the installer is assuming(?) an incomplete file. I personally pull from the >> kernel.org mirror and it works fine. > > The sites that I use have worked fine for years, so this is something of an > anomaly. > > No hits come up with "find <package-directory> -name '*tmp*'". > > I managed to kluge a method to compare my installed packages with those > downloaded and recorded in setup.log, thus identifying potentially missing > packages and confirming that they will probably not be a problem. The listing > of installed packages was gotten using cygcheck while the setup.log contained > all the packages that successfully downloaded. I removed all the extraneous > information in the 2 files that did not relate to packages, used vim editor > capabilities to make the formatting match between the 2 files, then sorted the > packages by name. Here are the missing packages: > > Obsolete > -------- > _autorebase 000164-1 > _update-info-dir 01088-1 > libpng12 1.2.50-2 > libpng14 1.4.12-3 > libpng14-devel 1.4.12-3 > vala-libcanberra-gtk 0.29-1 > w32api 9999-1 > > Not obsolete > ------------ > libpoppler19 0.18.4-2 > > I determined whether a package was obsolete by using the cygwin's setup.exe, > putting the versionless package name into the Search field, and toggling the > switch for hiding obsolete packages. I'm not too worried about the 1 missing > non-obsolete package, since setup.exe will prompt you to include packages that > are needed to fulfill dependencies. > > However, I was surprised to see the obsolescence of autorebase. It was just > recently made fully functional. Perhaps it has been folded into another > package. I browsed the cygwin website & documentation to find release notes > that might explain this, but no luck. I also tried googling for release > notes, > in vain. > > Anyway, I will create a CD of the installation packages and test it on Monday. > > Thanks! >
It isn't obsolete. All obsolete packages get assigned to _obsolete group. _autorebase is assigned to _PostInstallLast and is still an active group. It is likely hidden by default to minimize confusion. Robert Pendell A perfect world is one of chaos. -- 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
