> On Aug 31, 2024, at 11:54 PM, Roger via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > [..] > Yikies that was a long typed-up explanation post!
Yup, LOL. Long posts are a great way to avoid playing “20 questions”. :-) > > However, read threw it and as soon as I realized fdnpkg should have been > removing packages prior to trying to install packages, and was likely > not testing packages were being removed successfully if installed, I got > it, or clearly understood! I probably would have caught this during > Spring 2024, had there been stdout notice with fdnpkg attempting > removing the package prior to installing. > > As for myself, when programming (etc), I'm very finicky concerning > unnecessary white space, and have a toggle for vim for viewing white > space, making subsequent tidying of unnecessary white space easy. While this was a white-space issue, it was not something that would have been caught by any editor settings. In case you did not know this, the installer is batch based. So, it processes a lot of data through I/O redirected piping. The offending line in the installer was… echo %FTARGET% | vstr /d /f : 2| set /p _TC= It was changed to: echo %FTARGET%| vstr /d /f : 2| set /p _TC= Problem solved. :-) It is still strange that FDINST will install files when a mid-path white-space is present. But, a space there will cause it to not find them and not be able to remove or update them. > > Although I quickly wrote-up the initial post, had a funny gut feeling > for including the fact I installed from USB media image rather than the > usual CD media image. Yeah, I saw USB and “file exists” and knew immediately what was going on. The installer for the LiveCD, LegacyCD, CD Boot Floppy, USB Full and USB Lite are identical. However, there are some configuration differences and it needs to behave very differently when doing CD or USB installs. On the other hand, the Floppy Edition is a completely different system. > > Roger :-) Jerome > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user>
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