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Re: Updating failure -- now success!
On 2009-02-05, Simon McQueen wrote:
> On 05/02/2009 19:38, Gary Johnson wrote:
> >The setup.ini that I just fetched from ftp://cygwin.osuosl.org this
> >morning seems to have all the requires: lines. For example,
>
> Sorry - I think you may have misread my post. I didn't say anything
> about 'requires:' lines being missing.
Yes, I did. Sorry about that, and thanks for the correction.
> I based what I put on what Corrina Vinschen said in her post
> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00120.html) which said:
>
> "Lots of packages are missing version and install lines,
> not only libreadline6(*). It's just the one package all people using
> bash seeing immediately. Scanning the ini file I saw at least 60 or
> so packages affected by this problem. Their package information block
> just stops right after the "requires:" line."
As does the "@ vim" example I included. Nevertheless, my update
succeeded. I think.
> The install and version lines are still missing on my local mirror so I
> reckon I need to standby for a while.
Seems like a good idea.
Regards,
Gary
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