Re: Please try new setup exe's

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:49:12PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>On 7/15/2013 8:20 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:05:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> I'd appreciate it if people could try the two new setup.exe's
>>> installed at http://cygwin.com/
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe for 32-bit
>>> http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe for 64-bit
>>>
>>> The setup.ini's for both are updated using a similar schedule to the
>>> "official and soon to be deleted" version which uses
>>> /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/release.  The -x86* versions of these programs
>>> use the release directories from the arch specific locations.
>>>
>>> The setup.ini's used by these two new programs are not
>>> backwards-compatible with old setup.exe.
>>
>> Just to be clear, these new setup.exe's should not do anything untoward
>> to your existing installation.  They should *just work*.
>
>setup-x86_64.exe behaves differently from setup64.exe with respect to 
>source-only packages.  (I don't know which one is "right".)  This is 
>showing up for me because the 64-bit versions of gcc and readline are 
>source-only packages that are (incorrectly?) required by other packages. 
>  setup64.exe seems to ignore these requirements, whereas 
>setup-x86_64.exe wants to install the packages but then reports 
>"Incomplete download".

Thanks for trying this.  I doubt that is anything that I introduced.

Do you see the same behavior from setup-x86.exe?

cgf