Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup cant open package database error? From: Robert Collins To: tim.gunter@bioscrypt.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20030925165317.GA708@bioscrypt.com> References: <20030924210027.GA1412@bioscrypt.com> <20030925165317.GA708@bioscrypt.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-JLr8speENqogdfYfOz8D" Message-Id: <1064521568.939.132.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:26:09 +1000 --=-JLr8speENqogdfYfOz8D Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 02:53, Tim Gunter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:20:25PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Well, you could right-click on the directory in Explorer and select > > Properties -> Security -> Advanced... I'm really not familiar with FAT= 32 > > filesystems - I think neither ntsec nor ntea work on them. Is there a > > possibility of moving Cygwin to an NTFS partition? It would likely wor= k > > much better there anyway... >=20 > there is no such tab on my system, i guess its probably better > to run from NTFS. >=20 > > Can you remove "/etc/setup/installed.db" by hand and rename > > "/etc/setup/installed.db.new" to it? It might fix the problem, at leas= t > > for one setup run... >=20 > i did this, and setup now behaves better and remembers that it > just installed the new stuff. looking at the current installed.db > file, and the output of "cygcheck -c", many packages that i > have installed are no longer listed(Perl, openssh, etc.). is this > information lost forever? atleast some of it appears in a > different format in the installed.db.old file. There have been a number of format changes to that file, but setup reads them all (with no assurance if you have used third-party scripts that may or may not write valid information). All the lines in the file need to be of the one format though: you can't copy line by line across. Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-JLr8speENqogdfYfOz8D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/c09gI5+kQ8LJcoIRApP2AJ9J43FwCYNKBoCpcDs/9+YB1QnNvgCeIcRL K7iQS4QWa6XWcFHa0Hul/ok= =VQwj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JLr8speENqogdfYfOz8D--