Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-07 Thread Jon Turney
On 07/11/2017 10:25, Houder wrote: On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:02:08, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: Since [1], there's no way to install a prev version using setup, without explicitly selecting which version you want, so the ordering of those [prev] versions in setup.ini is relatively unimpo

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-07 Thread Houder
On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:02:08, Achim Gratz wrote: > Jon Turney writes: > > Since [1], there's no way to install a prev version using setup, > > without explicitly selecting which version you want, so the ordering > > of those [prev] versions in setup.ini is relatively unimportant. > > For setup tha

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > Since [1], there's no way to install a prev version using setup, > without explicitly selecting which version you want, so the ordering > of those [prev] versions in setup.ini is relatively unimportant. For setup that is true, but linear parsers that can only keep one version

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-06 Thread Jon Turney
On 06/11/2017 16:34, Houder wrote: On 2017-11-06 15:20, Jon Turney wrote: [snip] I try to keep [1] accurate and up-to-date, but the 'specification' is really "what setup accepts" :( Currently, the ordering requirements are: 1) The version to be installed when test versions are selected (the h

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-06 Thread Jon Turney
On 06/11/2017 15:35, Houder wrote: On 2017-11-06 15:20, Jon Turney wrote: [snip] Thanks for pointing this out.  This is due to a 'bug', which caused incorrect ordering of test versions lower than curr. That should be fixed now, but please let me know if you notice any other problems. This is

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-06 Thread Houder
On 2017-11-06 15:20, Jon Turney wrote: [snip] I try to keep [1] accurate and up-to-date, but the 'specification' is really "what setup accepts" :( Currently, the ordering requirements are: 1) The version to be installed when test versions are selected (the highest test, unless one is explicitl

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-06 Thread Houder
On 2017-11-06 15:20, Jon Turney wrote: [snip] Since [1], there's no way to install a prev version using setup, without explicitly selecting which version you want, so the ordering of those [prev] versions in setup.ini is relatively unimportant. [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-07/msg0

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-06 Thread Houder
On 2017-11-06 15:20, Jon Turney wrote: [snip] Thanks for pointing this out. This is due to a 'bug', which caused incorrect ordering of test versions lower than curr. That should be fixed now, but please let me know if you notice any other problems. This is the list that I assembled, based of

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-06 Thread Jon Turney
On 05/11/2017 18:04, Houder wrote: On 2017-11-05 18:32, Houder wrote: On 2017-11-05 13:48, Houder wrote: Currently, I am only interested in the _specification_ that you have in mind for setup.ini ... I try to keep [1] accurate and up-to-date, but the 'specification' is really "what setup acc

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-06 Thread Jon Turney
On 05/11/2017 17:32, Houder wrote: On 2017-11-05 13:48, Houder wrote: After I had downloaded and exercised setup version 2.882, I noticed that setup.ini has multiple (2?) "prev" entries per package ... Why? Did I miss one of your announcements mentioning this change?     https://cygwin.com/m

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-05 Thread Houder
On 2017-11-05 18:32, Houder wrote: On 2017-11-05 13:48, Houder wrote: Hi John (Turney), After I had downloaded and exercised setup version 2.882, I noticed that setup.ini has multiple (2?) "prev" entries per package ... Why? Did I miss one of your announcements mentioning this change? Jon,

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-05 Thread Houder
On 2017-11-05 13:48, Houder wrote: Hi John (Turney), After I had downloaded and exercised setup version 2.882, I noticed that setup.ini has multiple (2?) "prev" entries per package ... Why? Did I miss one of your announcements mentioning this change? Jon, https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-app

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-05 Thread Houder
On 2017-11-05 13:48, Houder wrote: Hi John (Turney), After I had downloaded and exercised setup version 2.882, I noticed that setup.ini has multiple (2?) "prev" entries per package ... Why? Did I miss one of your announcements mentioning this change? See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-05 Thread Houder
On 2017-11-05 15:03, Vince Rice wrote: It's Jon, and yes, you did. I'm on the way out the door, but you can search the archives. The discussion was on apps, IIRC, and was in the last month or two. Thank you. Not Jon Sorry about that. Regards, Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

2017-11-05 Thread Vince Rice
> On Nov 5, 2017, at 6:48 AM, Houder wrote: > > Hi John (Turney), > > After I had downloaded and exercised setup version 2.882, I noticed > that setup.ini has multiple (2?) "prev" entries per package ... > > Why? Did I miss one of your announcements mentioning this change? > > Regards, > > Hen

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Charles Wilson writes: > On 11/4/2013 11:00 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> I've got a few cleanups, and then I'll share the result. It's already >>> helped me generate a few re-packaging requests I plan to post over on >>> cygwi

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread David Stacey
On 04/11/13 17:30, Charles Wilson wrote: On 11/4/2013 11:00 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: I've got a few cleanups, and then I'll share the result. It's already helped me generate a few re-packaging requests I plan to post over on

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/11/2013 11:00 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: On 10/30/2013 9:51 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/10/2013 8:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: Yeah; even for my stripped-down version, I need to pre-process the setup.ini and remove all

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >On 10/30/2013 9:51 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> On 30/10/2013 8:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> Yeah; even for my stripped-down version, I need to pre-process the >>> setup.ini and remove all mentions of cygwin, libstdc++6, libgcc1, et

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/30/2013 9:51 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/10/2013 8:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: Yeah; even for my stripped-down version, I need to pre-process the setup.ini and remove all mentions of cygwin, libstdc++6, libgcc1, etc. The ncurses DLLs are also a huge nexus. (It's probably easier to excl

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-10-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 30/10/2013 8:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 10/26/2013 5:40 AM, David Stacey wrote: On 25/10/13 17:12, Charles Wilson wrote: Oooo - this sounds like fun. I've knocked up some (very bad) perl that gives you what you need. It generates a graphviz file that you can pipe to 'dot' to generate the

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-10-30 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/26/2013 5:40 AM, David Stacey wrote: On 25/10/13 17:12, Charles Wilson wrote: Oooo - this sounds like fun. I've knocked up some (very bad) perl that gives you what you need. It generates a graphviz file that you can pipe to 'dot' to generate the dependency graph in whatever format you requi

Re: why do psutils & libtool packages need ~25+MB of latex (was Re: setup.ini dependency graph?)

2013-10-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/27/2013 1:00 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: On 10/25/2013 5:29 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/10/2013 12:12 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Does anybody have a script or a tool that can parse a setup.ini and generate a dependency graph? I'm using pmcyg to create a stripped-down standalone installation

why do psutils & libtool packages need ~25+MB of latex (was Re: setup.ini dependency graph?)

2013-10-26 Thread Linda Walsh
On 10/25/2013 5:29 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/10/2013 12:12 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Does anybody have a script or a tool that can parse a setup.ini and generate a dependency graph? I'm using pmcyg to create a stripped-down standalone installation CD and it's too big, so I'm trying to fig

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-10-26 Thread David Stacey
On 25/10/13 17:12, Charles Wilson wrote: Does anybody have a script or a tool that can parse a setup.ini and generate a dependency graph? I'm using pmcyg to create a stripped-down standalone installation CD and it's too big, so I'm trying to figure out where the culprit is that's pulling in so

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-10-25 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 25/10/2013 12:12 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Does anybody have a script or a tool that can parse a setup.ini and generate a dependency graph? I'm using pmcyg to create a stripped-down standalone installation CD and it's too big, so I'm trying to figure out where the culprit is that's pulling

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:25:59AM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >>I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is >>definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer >>(setup.exe) it'

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:31:55AM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >That's something you should please tell CGF, not me... Actually, I prefer not to be lectured about obvious things. YMMV. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docu

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Ralph Hempel
Just for fun, I googled "ralph hempel cygwin mailing list archive" Guess what the first hit is? Ralph -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christoph Herdeg wrote: - Dave, thank so much you for posting setup.exe's command line switches. That was probably the 1st thing Jonathan did. - Christopher, thank you so much for telling the world how dumb everybody is, that doens't do something your way. - Ralf, thank you so much for posting

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Christoph Herdeg
03.2010 10:28 Subject:Re: Setup.ini file for S

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 26.03.2010 10:25, schrieb Christoph Herdeg: > Is there eventually a possibility of someone explaining to me why Jonathan > used my incredibly complex and hard to maintain method rather than > following Daves eloquent advice?!? > Although it's so funny that my message cam *after* somebody telling

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Date: 25.03.2010 13:39 Subject:Re: Setup

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/03/2010 12:46, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >> I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is >> definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer >> (setup.exe) it's a real pain i

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is >definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer >(setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Funny how your email comes *after* someone

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Ralph Hempel
RESEND - NOW WITH SPELLING MISTAKES FIXED... Christoph Herdeg wrote: Hello Jonathan, I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination d

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christoph Herdeg wrote: Hello Jonathan, I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination directory of "c:\cygwin": - First you need to

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Hello Jonathan, I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination directory of "c:\cygwin": - First you need to create a customized instal

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/03/2010 09:02, Jonathan Cummings wrote: > Sir/Madam, Please feel free not to stand on formality round here :) > Is it possible to get a setup.ini file to use along side > setup.exe to allow us to install cygwin on multiple servers in our > organisation? -I would then like to add the det

Re: setup.ini causes problems to setup.exe

2006-10-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 23 10:12, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > I want to flag that: > > the current setup.ini (20061023 02:00) contains: > > > @ libasprintf0 > sdesc: "C-style formatted output in C++ (runtime)" > ldesc: "libasprintf makes the C f

Re: setup.ini

2005-09-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:59:59AM -0400, Hassel, Scott wrote: >It appears that the currently mirrored setup.ini for the installation >utility is missing a '"' on line 496 under the @ a2ps entry. Could >someone confirm and correct? setup.ini is generated by a program. If an entry really was miss

Re: setup.ini upset?

2005-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 22:12, Max Bowsher wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >Just tried updating cygwin from mirrors.rcn.net, and got a much smaller > >setup.ini than usual, with many install: and source: lines missing. > > Something odd has happened. > > I've posted on cygwin-apps. > > We need CGF o

Re: setup.ini upset?

2005-06-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Just tried updating cygwin from mirrors.rcn.net, and got a much smaller setup.ini than usual, with many install: and source: lines missing. Something odd has happened. I've posted on cygwin-apps. We need CGF or maybe Corinna to fix it. Max. -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: setup.ini has an error on all the mirrors!!! Please rectify asap.

2004-08-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Emmanuel E wrote: Its been more than 24 hrs since the error was reported. And still mirrors do not reflect the change :( Is it possible to do a force update of just that one file? I have tried ftp.iitm.ac.in , mirror.averse.net, mirrors.kernel.org, planetmirror.com mirrors.xmission.com sources-red

RE: setup.ini has an error on all the mirrors!!! Please rectify asap.

2004-08-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Emmanuel E > Sent: 19 August 2004 18:25 > To: Max Bowsher > Cc: cygwin > Its been more than 24 hrs since the error was reported. And > still mirrors do > not reflect the change :( > Is it possible to do a force update of just that one

Re: Setup.ini has an error on all the mirrors!!! Please rectify asap.

2004-08-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Emmanuel E wrote: Setup.ini has an unwanted comma in line 1537. The cygwin setup utility fails on parsing line 1537. Line 1537 should read "requires: cygwin e2fsprogs" and not "requires: cygwin, e2fsprogs". Could someone kindly rectify this at the earliest? All the cygwin mirrors are facing this pr

Re: setup.ini corrupted on sources.redhat.com

2003-09-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:59:14PM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote: >Chris, thank you for correcting this quickly. I am back up and running >again. You're welcome. Want to make a bet on how many problem reports we'll see on this issue as the fixed setup.ini works its way around? cgf -- Unsubscribe in

RE: setup.ini corrupted on sources.redhat.com

2003-09-19 Thread Parker, Ron
Chris, thank you for correcting this quickly. I am back up and running again. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: setup.ini : incorrect content

2002-11-29 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Entry for regex in current setup.ini is > @ regex > sdesc: "POSIX compliant regular expression library" > category: Libs > requires: cygwin > [prev] > version: 4.4-2 > install: release/regex/regex-4.4-2.tar.bz2 44536 > 75516107c120eb3c64bc54ef96786b17

RE: Setup.ini buggy

2002-05-20 Thread Robert Collins
Thanks, should be fixed when the mirrors update. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Reinhard Nissl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Setup.ini buggy > > > Hi, > > I've realized, that the current and the previous version o

Re: setup.ini : strange postgresql instructions

2002-04-18 Thread fergus
> Fergus, Is the timestamp you've given above from the setup-timestamp > line _inside_ the setup.ini or the file datetime? Definitely _inside_ setup.ini. That's what's so weird. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/b

Re: setup.ini : strange postgresql instructions

2002-04-18 Thread fergus
> Where did you download each setup.ini from and when? Both from ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/ The first 1019135438 at about 1600 GMT Thursday 20020418 and the second 1019143833 about an hour later. (Roughly.) Perplexed by starnge reversion so selected "Cancel". Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: setup.ini : strange postgresql instructions

2002-04-18 Thread Michael A Chase
From: "Jason Tishler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:10 Subject: Re: setup.ini : strange postgresql instructions > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:40:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >

Re: setup.ini : strange postgresql instructions

2002-04-18 Thread Jason Tishler
Chris, On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:40:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > setup.ini stamped 1019135438 upgrades postgresql 7.2-2 to 7.2.1-1 > setup.ini stamped 1019143833 upgrades postgresql 7.1.3-2 to 7.2-2 > Problem with versions? For the moment I'm keeping 7.2.1-1. Thanks. I just uploaded t

Re: setup.ini : strange postgresql instructions

2002-04-18 Thread Michael A Chase
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 09:40 Subject: setup.ini : strange postgresql instructions > setup.ini stamped 1019135438 upgrades postgresql 7.2-2 to 7.2.1-1 > setup.ini stamped 1019143833 upgrades pos

Re: setup.ini for custom distrobution

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Michael Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How can I write a setup.ini so that it will install everything without > having to click on 40 packages? 1) Don't use a setup.ini. 2) Put everything into base. 3) read http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html > If this is a RTFM