Re: setup takes a long time

2018-01-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Fergus Daly writes: > As an incidental query: > I deduce from the look of the snip above that you update Cygwin from > within Cygwin? You can update one Cygwin installation from another (distinct) Cygwin installation. You shouldn't do that from within the same Cygwin installation unless you

Re: setup takes a long time

2018-01-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Fergus Daly writes: > The setup program does seem to take a long time, even when it just > means "update" and even when there's nothing to update. Here's what > happens in unattended mode: […] Looks completely normal. Some of the scripts do need to look at quite a few files before deciding if

Re: setup takes a long time

2018-01-31 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-01-31 08:34, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Jon Turney sent the following at Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:02 AM >> On 31/01/2018 06:18, Fergus Daly wrote: [...] >>> >>> The setup program does seem to take a long time, even when it just >>> means "update" and even when there's

RE: setup takes a long time

2018-01-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jon Turney sent the following at Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:02 AM >On 31/01/2018 06:18, Fergus Daly wrote: [...] >> >> The setup program does seem to take a long time, even when it just >> means "update" and even when there's nothing to update. Here's what >> happens in unattended mode: > >

Re: setup takes a long time

2018-01-31 Thread Fergus Daly
>> $ ./setup-2.884.x86_64.exe --local-install >> '\\necker\download\cygwin-packages' --no-admin --upgrade-also --quiet-mode >> --mirror-mode --no-shortcuts | ts -i Thank you, using ts is really illuminating. As an incidental query: I deduce from the look of the snip above that you update Cygwin

Re: setup takes a long time

2018-01-31 Thread Jon Turney
On 31/01/2018 06:18, Fergus Daly wrote: The setup program does seem to take a long time, even when it just means "update" and even when there's nothing to update. Here's what happens in unattended mode: [...] Try this with 'ts' from moreutils, e.g: $ ./setup-2.884.x86_64.exe --local-install

setup takes a long time

2018-01-30 Thread Fergus Daly
The setup program does seem to take a long time, even when it just means "update" and even when there's nothing to update. Here's what happens in unattended mode: C:\Users\User0044>D:\cyg\setup-x86.exe -L D:\cyg -R D:\consoleX -Wgqmn Starting cygwin install, version 2.884 User has backup/restore