Hey guys, On Jan 28 21:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > https://cygwin.com/setup-test-x86.exe > https://cygwin.com/setup-test-x86_64.exe > > These should fix the aforementioned bug I introduced, as well as another > subtil problem when checking and unchecking the Bin/Src boxes. If both > boxes were deselected, the package got uninstalled without showing up in > the "Pending" view. I worked around that by setting the package state > explicitely to "Uninstall" if both boxes got deselected. > > This version also introduces an experimental option -m/--mirror-mode. > > There's something bugging me for a long time as well. We're running our > own Cygwin mirror on a local Linux box. The directory is mounted via > NFS on my Windows boxes. So, rather than installing from internet, I > "Install from Local Directory", with the local directory being the > NFS-mounted mirror directory. > > This works fine, except that, after parsing setup.ini, setup hangs > unresponsive for about 2 minutes. Only then the chooser window opens. > > It turned out that the 2 minutes are spent iterating throught the full > set of packages and testing each package and each packageversion if the > underlying package file exists in the download directory. > > Given that the directory is a mirror in my case, the test makes only > marginal sense. Therefore I added the -m option which avoids most file > system access and only checks in a border case (installed version is not > in setup.ini). > > If you're doing as I do, running a local mirror, you may welcome this > option. I just don't guarantee that it always works ;} If you find a > bug, don't hesitate to report it.
Did you test this version? Is it ok to become the release version of setup? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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