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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:20:56PM -0600, Heath Kehoe wrote:
>These packages wind up in install_q in do_install_thread(); and so get 
>passed to Installer::installOne(). As there's no 'install:' field in 
>setup.ini, the packagesource 'filename' and 'canonical' members are 
>NULL; and the 'cached' member ends up containing 'local_dir' with 
>nothing else; hence the mbox message that we see.
>
>I'm not sure why this only seems to manifest when using a network drive 
>as the package source (or cache).
>
>Anyway, for now I'm going to just comment out the call to note() at 
>install.cc:295 so that my users can do installations without having to 
>dismiss that popup 52 times.

Thanks for tracking this down.  It is impressive that you managed to
pinpoint the problem so well.  It helped quite a bit.

There is a new version of setup.exe and setup-legacy.exe on cygwin.com
now.  Please let me know if this fixes the problem you noted.

cgf

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