Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, November 12, 2004 5:16 PM: [snip] >> No problem, as long as there is at least an explanation for weird >> behaviour. :) > > I spent way too long last night trying to figure out why *I* > couldn't install X anymore. I could see the setup.exe > messages flashing by as it was "installing" the xorg packages > but, when I was done, only some things from X were installed. > If I unpacked the tar.bz2 files by hand then I got > everything I expected. It took about an hour for a "Oh. Wait > a minute." reaction to kick in. > > The problem with the tar files was that I'd used the -o > option to tar when creating the tar files. This creates > smaller tar files but apparently setup.exe doesn't like the old style > tar format. > > Anyway, I'm just operating on a hunch here but I'll be REALLY > interested to hear if this repackaging fixes the problems > that people were seeing. If it does, I'll look into the setup code to > see why that is.
Thanks for your effort, Chris. I'll try it on Monday ASAP when I am in office again. At home I have the *real thing* and cannot test this sort of problems :)) - J�rg
