Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 10/17/2015 5:14 PM, David Stacey wrote:
> On 17/10/15 13:13, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 10/17/2015 3:28 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > > Ken Brown writes:
> > > > > Could you check if the setup.ini.sig file is just not stored to disk and
> > > > > that setup would commence installing if you downloaded it manually and
> > > > > put alongside the setup.ini file?
> > > >
> > > > Is there a new requirement that a local repository has to have a
> > > > signature file?  And does it have to be setup.ini.sig (rather than,
> > > > for example, setup.bz2.sig)?
> > >
> > > You can always tell it to not check the signature (--no-verify / -X),
> > > but if the directory you set it upon looks like a mirror and has a setup
> > > file, then it will by default want to check the signature (belonging to
> > > the actual suffix used: .xz, .bz2 and lastly .ini).
> >
> > I maintain my own small repository at a remote site and mirror it on my local
> > machine.  It contains, for each architecture, setup.ini, setup.xz, and
> > setup.xz.sig.  Installation from the remote site works fine.  If I try to
> > install from my local mirror, setup complains that it can't find
> > setup.ini.sig.  I can install from the local mirror only if I add setup.ini.sig.
>
> Same here. I maintain a local mirror and use my own setup.ini files (created
> with genini); these do not have 'sig' files. Directory structure is as follows:
>
> cygwin-2015-10-16
>    /cygwin
>      /x86
>      /x86_64
>    /cygwinports
>      /noarch
>      /x86
>      /x86_64
>
> The 'setup.ini' files are located in the 'x86' and 'x86_64' directories; setup
> is pointed at the 'cygwin-2015-10-16' directory. Eventually managed to install
> using an older version of setup that I had downloaded previously.

Thanks for the confirmation, Dave.  Since Achim can't reproduce the problem, 
maybe we should temporarily forget about local mirrors and go back to the 
simpler situation reported by the OP.  I just reproduced that problem in a 
simpler form as follows:

1. Download setup-x86.exe from the Cygwin website, and put it in an empty 
directory c:/download-test.

2. Run setup-x86.exe.  Choose "Install from Internet".  Choose the nonexistent 
c:\cygwin-test as root directory.   Choose c:/download-test as local package 
directory.  Choose http://mirrors.kernel.org as the only download site. 
Repeatedly click "Next" while setup does a base install.

At this point, the download directory looks like this:

download-test
  setup-x86.exe
  http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f
    x86
      setup.ini
      release
        _autorebase
        ...

3. Run setup-x86.exe again, this time choosing "Install from Local Directory". 
setup complains that it can't get 
c:/download-test/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f//x86/setup.ini.sig 
from <localdir>.  [This is the first bug; if setup expects to find signature 
files in local directories, it should save the ones it downloads.]

4. Retry, this time using setup-x86.exe -X.  The "Select Packages" screen lists 
all the installed packages, but for each package the only options are "Keep" and 
"Uninstall".  [This is the second bug; setup has apparently failed to descend 
into http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f.]

5. Repeat, but this time change the local package directory from the default 
c:/download-test to 
c:/download-test/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f.  Now 
each package has the additional option "Reinstall" (which works).

Achim, can you reproduce this?  Please use the official setup-x86.exe rather 
than the one you built, in case your local setup repo is somehow different from 
the upstream repo.

Ken

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