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Date:	Fri, 17 May 2002 11:07:47 +0200
From:	Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbe AT cistron DOT nl>
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Subject:	Setup.exe does not like its own source (was: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9
	broken)

Chris Down wrote:
>  I regularly update my Cygwin installation ( Win2k) and I do not usually 
> get any problems. However I recently updated using setup-2.218.2.9 and the 
> "Download Incomplete" window popped up. After investigating I found that 
> this only occurred if I tried to do an internet install  on the Setup 
> sources. If I omit this everything is fine. I use mirrors.rcn.net for 
> installs. This is repeatable on my set up.

Noticed this too. Problem is that setup is the only(?) package
in setup.ini with only source and no binary (for obvious reasons).
The setup entry in setup.ini:
----------------------------
@ setup
sdesc: "The Cygwin Net Distribution installer and updater program."
category: System Net Utils
version: 2.218.2.9-1
source: release/setup/setup-2.218.2.9-1-src.tar.bz2 659936 9a2b1ee9d1d97208578b9535bb6018ec
----------------------------
Note: no install: line.

So Setup.exe still tries to download/install the binary which is not there,
hence the Download Incomplete messages.
Setup needs to accept that there are source only packages.

I guess Robert is already aware of this.

Ton van Overbeek
P.S. Why is the contents of setup-2.218.2.9-1-src.tar.bz2 only an other
     tar.bz2 file ? Why not rename the original tar.bz2 file, would save
     a few bytes.

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