On 28 February 2008 14:35, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
Why does setup insist on trying to install colordiff? How
can this be turned off (without installing colordiff, of
course)?
It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
manually set the package to Skip in the
It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
manually set the package to Skip in the chooser. Frankly it's a hundred
times quicker and easier to just let it install, the package is tiny.
My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
of Perl
On 28 February 2008 15:05, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
manually set the package to Skip in the chooser. Frankly it's a hundred
times quicker and easier to just let it install, the package is tiny.
My problem is that
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe. Hence why I
brought it up.
Oh, ouch. Maybe until we get this sorted out we should remove the
dependencies.
Nobody's quite sure where exactly the bug is yet, but how
it's /supposed/ to work is that everything in the Base
category is mandatory, and everything else is optional.
I notice that for colordiff the category is Misc, and there
are no other modules for that category. Shouldn't the
category
On Feb 28 18:31, Kostya Altukhov wrote:
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe. Hence why I
brought it up.
Oh, ouch. Maybe until we get this
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes:
It's in Utils now. Somebody already changed that on cygwin.com
a couple of hours ago.
No, all I did was touch the file on cygwin.com a couple of hours ago, hoping
that it would be enough to trigger a setup.ini regeneration. But before I
On 28 February 2008 17:01, Eric Blake wrote:
(unless I
misunderstand how frequently setup.ini is regenerated).
Every ten minutes, regardless of timestamps, IIUIC.
cheers,
DaveK
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
No, all I did was touch the file on cygwin.com a couple of hours ago, hoping
that it would be enough to trigger a setup.ini regeneration. But before I
touched the file, it _already_ was in Utils (in fact, in the original ITP,
the
Kostya Altukhov kacygwinlist at gmail.com writes:
Looks like the category field in setup.hint has uppercase C. This
might cause it to be ignored by the script - please change it to
lowercase c.
Bingo. That was it. Now you can wait for the fixed setup.ini to propagate to
a mirror near you.
Kostya Altukhov wrote:
I've actually looked in setup.exe source and I found this piece of code:
if (installed
|| categories.find (Base) != categories.end ()
|| categories.find (Misc) != categories.end ())
{
desired = default_version;
So by default setup attempts
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