J�rg Schaible wrote on Friday, November 12, 2004 5:59 PM: > 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 :))
Worked fine. Thanks. - J�rg
