RE: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Well I can't duplicate it :}. I have a somewhat different source base > though, so I'll try and commit that in the next coupla hours. > I just read another post of yours that (if I read it right) sounded like you still had two small patches from me not comitted yet ("Add" box crash and somethi

Re: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: RE: for the brave > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAI

RE: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson [snip] > the concat call prepended "file://" with two more '/' chars > > > 2+2 = 4 > > So why does the resulting filespec have only 3 '/' chars? Somewhere > along the line, I don't kno

Re: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Earnie Boyd wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > >>file:/Polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/setup.ini >>file:Polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/setup.ini >> >> > > This makes sense. You need two // after file: and two // before > Polgara. The extra fifth / was just ign

Re: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Is //polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin the path you enter in > > 'choose local dir' ? > > > Sortof. I didn't type it in; it already "knew" somehow. And it was in > this form: '\\polgara\private\software\windows\cyg

Re: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
Yes, I thought it was the shares issue - see README :}. Thanks for confirming it though, I can work on a patch now. Rob === - Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Okay, this is from setup 2.188 (compiled just now) and I am trying to do > > a local install f

Re: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: > > file:/Polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/setup.ini > file:Polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/setup.ini > This makes sense. You need two // after file: and two // before Polgara. The extra fifth / was just ignored. Earnie.

Re: for the brave

2002-01-27 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: > After applying the attached patch to setup 2.188, I got a clue that the > problem was that my 'local' repository was on a remote share > '//polgara/private/'. Forgot to include the setup.log.full data that gave me this clue: setup.exe is really trying to iostream::o

Re: for the brave

2002-01-27 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > >> >> IIRC this is reproducible for you Chuck, can you shoot me some logs >> please. > > > > Okay, this is from setup 2.188 (compiled just now) and I am trying to do > a local install from //polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/ > which

Re: for the brave

2002-01-27 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: > > IIRC this is reproducible for you Chuck, can you shoot me some logs > please. Okay, this is from setup 2.188 (compiled just now) and I am trying to do a local install from //polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/ which contains a standard tree structure and th

Re: for the brave

2002-01-22 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Log files for download only, or non-installed cygwin's will go to the download dir correctly now. There was, and still is, explicit code to drop setup.log and .log.full in / if it's an install action. Perhaps that shou

Re: for the brave

2002-01-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: >>Note that if I remove setup.ini/log/full and run setup-new in "install >>from internet" mode, the new setup does NOT recreate .ini/log/full and >>I'm left with an .ini-less local dir (but it WILL download and parse >>setup.ini from the internet, and download/install the c

Re: for the brave

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:31 AM > Robert Collins wrote: > > > === > > - Original Message - > > From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>Oops -- more problems. I can't "install from local directory"

Re: for the brave

2002-01-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: > === > - Original Message - > From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Oops -- more problems. I can't "install from local directory". Setup >>whines that it is "Unable to get setup.ini from setup.ini" (??) >> > > Is this reproducible? What does your local

Re: for the brave

2002-01-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sorry that I didn't have time to track it down further. I will do so > tomorrow if no one beats me to it. That's fine either way - this is in the 'wll in theory it works' bin at the moment. I've had no trouble in

Re: for the brave

2002-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:28:41PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >=== >- Original Message - >From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Oops -- more problems. I can't "install from local directory". Setup >> whines that it is "Unable to get setup.ini from setup.ini" (??) > >Is thi

Re: for the brave

2002-01-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Oops -- more problems. I can't "install from local directory". Setup > whines that it is "Unable to get setup.ini from setup.ini" (??) Is this reproducible? What does your local dir look like (what setup.ini's does

Re: for the brave

2002-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: > === > - Original Message - > From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>HmmmW2K it reports "REplaced in use file -- you need to reboot" or >>some such. BUT: I had no cygwin processes running. >> a) what file did it THINK was in use? >> > > I'll look at

Re: for the brave

2002-01-19 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > HmmmW2K it reports "REplaced in use file -- you need to reboot" or > some such. BUT: I had no cygwin processes running. >a) what file did it THINK was in use? I'll look at providing more detail in the future.

Re: for the brave

2002-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Collins >> > >>I need a few testers: >> >>I've fixed the fault Corinna reported with in use files and upgrades. >>I'd like to know that it works on 9x (not tested pr

RE: for the brave

2002-01-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Collins > I need a few testers: > > I've fixed the fault Corinna reported with in use files and upgrades. > I'd like to know that it works on 9x (not tested properly just now), and > if anyone c

for the brave

2002-01-19 Thread Robert Collins
I need a few testers: I've fixed the fault Corinna reported with in use files and upgrades. I'd like to know that it works on 9x (not tested properly just now), and if anyone can get it to fault - with reasonable behaviour. I.e. reinstall the cygwin package, and see if it does the 'right thing'.