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Re: Something breaks unattended setup: think it's just version no / filename of latest gt5 release


On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:50:33AM +0000, Fergus wrote:
>Larry Hall (Cygwin) - Re: Cygwin 1.7.17 breaks unattended setup >> .. 
>one could then narrow in on the package that's causing
> >> unattended mode to fail.
>
> >  Assuming that's true, why is there still a "Cygwin 1.7.17"
> >  in the subject?
>
>Sorry, just inherited that subject line. Now changed. Quick repeat:
>It's the @gt5 paragraph in setup.ini (I think).
>It certainly breaks the build process for me.
>Suspect it's the ~ in the filename.
>It is indeed the only occurrence of that punctuation under release/:
>version: 1.5.0~20111220+bzr29-1
>install: release/gt5/gt5-1.5.0~20111220+bzr29-1.tar.bz2 17876 
>5665c1607f2b958b7edfa271b4d20aae
>source: release/gt5/gt5-1.5.0~20111220+bzr29-1-src.tar.bz2 105709 
>1f1ae1e59bf68448216800a4e2938ca0

I don't see anything in the setup.exe source code which would break
because there was a '~' in the filename.  It just assigns the version
as the string between the first dash and the last without caring
about what's in between.

cgf

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