Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: > >> On 2003-07-15T17:31+0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> ) On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> ) > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> ) > > url : >> http://shell.n.ml.org/n/naim/naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10-cygwinrelease.tar.bz2 ) OK, >> the sun is shining, it's a lovely day..and I uploaded naim :-) Please send ) >> an announcement in a couple of hours. >> Got the announce written up, went to verify the install procedure and ran >> into a problem. If I run setup, http://mirrors.rcn.net/ mirror, go to Net, >> and install naim, it downloads the .tar.bz2, makes like it's installing, >> then exits with a message: Nothing needed to be installed. None of the files >> in the package seem to appear in /usr/bin, /usr/doc/Cygwin, or elsewhere. If >> I cd / and manually >> tar -jxvf .../release/naim/naim-0.11.5.9.cyg11-1.tar.bz2 >> it does appear to install successfully, so I'm not sure what might be up. I >> have tried deltree'ing C:\cygwin\ and reinstalling from scratch, just in >> case I had broken something in my own install, but no dice. > > OK, I have an incling that this is because of the package file names. I've > renamed the files, to see if setup will grok them.
It's not the names. That didn't seem right, and testing confirmed - same failure mode when the version number is changed to 0.11.5-1 in file names and setup.ini. Nothing else looks odd with the package files, either. I'll see if I can add some extra logging to the relevant place in setup. Max.
