Robert Collins wrote: > === > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Oops -- more problems. I can't "install from local directory". Setup >>whines that it is "Unable to get setup.ini from setup.ini" (??) >> > > Is this reproducible? What does your local dir look like (what > setup.ini's does it have, and what does the top dir show in ls -l)
Yes it is reproducible. The local dir is on a samba share and looks like: $ ls -l //polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin drwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 0 Jan 12 05:04 contrib drwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 0 Jan 16 23:44 latest -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 2543725 Jan 19 23:13 setup-new.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 218112 Nov 29 05:44 setup.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 52399 Jan 20 23:01 setup.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 335 Jan 20 20:19 setup.log -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 335 Jan 20 20:19 setup.log.full setup-new.exe is the one from CVS. setup.exe is the one from the webpage. Note that if I remove setup.ini/log/full and run setup-new in "install from internet" mode, the new setup does NOT recreate .ini/log/full and I'm left with an .ini-less local dir (but it WILL download and parse setup.ini from the internet, and download/install the chosen packages. BUT, I have NO idea where it put them -- e.g. cygwin-1.3.8-1.tar.bz2 did NOT get saved into latest/cygwin/ even though it WAS successfully installed. However, the good news is that if I run setup-new in "install from local dir" mode, with this ini-less directory, setup-new.ini will successfully parse the local latest and contrib directories and present me with lots of packages in the misc group -- so at least that works. Hmmm...I note that setup-new is appending stuff to /setup.log and rewriting /setup.log.full -- that is, it doesn't write this info into //polgara/private/.... (No, there is no /setup.ini and there is no latest/contrib tree under /) --Chuck
