On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:42:33, David Lee wrote: > I tried to perform a clean Cygwin installation and encountered a > problem with package versions. > > Steps > ----- > > 1. Download setup.exe. > 2. Run it. > 3. At "Cygwin Net Release Setup Program", click next. > 3. Choose "Install From Internet". Click next. > 4. Pick a root directory. Click next. > 5. Pick a local package directory. Click next. > 6. Pick a internet connection suitable for you (I had to choose "system > proxy"). > Click next. > 7. Pick a download site. Click next (I tried http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp > and http://mirrors.kernel.org). > 8. Let setup download setup.ini. > 9. On the "Select Packages" screen, pick bsdtar. Click next. (There is > nothing special about bsdtar; you can pick any packages that have > liblz4_1 as dependency; see below). > > 10. On the "Review and Confirm changes" screen, notice there are some > automatically pulled packages. One of them is "liblz4_1", at version > "131-1". However, the current version is "1.7.5-1". You can see by > going back to the previous screen and click on the "liblz4_1" package. > > Is there some reason that the setup program downloaded a previous > version instead the current one for liblz4_1? Thanks for helping.
Bug in setup*. This also happens for x86_64. (maintainers are aware of this issue). As a reference, read https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-03/msg00038.html (Btw, install v1.7.5-1) Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple