On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 10:55 AM Michael Lemke wrote: >On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:57:46 -0700 (PDT) Marco Atzeri wrote: >>Am 22.10.2018 um 18:50 schrieb Lemke, Michael: >>> I was just about to update my Cygwin installation when setup would >>> list only a fraction of my installed packages. For instance git is >>> missing but I have it installed. setup_version is 2.893 and running >>> it with -v it tells there are 69 packages installed. But >>> >>> $ wc /etc/setup/installed.db >>> 835 2504 36779 /etc/setup/installed.db >>> >>> and I also see all these tar files in the installation directory. This >>> is a 32bit installation on Win10 64bit. >>> >>> What is going on, how can I debug this? >>> >> >>69 packages seems a minimal installation. >>May be you have more than one Cygwin installed ? >> >>Double check the proposed installation directory from setup > >Thanks, I did and I can't find anything wrong. Where does setup.exe gets >the information from? I tried several versions, the current official one, >the new snapshot and something older I have lying around. They all do >this. They are in my distribution directory with all the Cygwin downloads >and all show the correct location of distribution directory and installation >directory. Some junk in the registry?
Nevermind, I found it. setup.exe chose c:\cygwin as installation directory which is wrong for my installation. I don't know, though, why it picked this directory. Anyway, if I enter the correct location manually everything is fine. Sorry for the noise. Michael -- 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
