X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:19:45 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "mbox note: Can't open file://L:\ods\rtoy\Cygnus/ for reading: Unrecognisable file format" errors whilst executing setup.exe Message-ID: <20100128211944.GC21915@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <373c64181001110212l1e57f457t954e597f9f34bfc1 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <4B60AF16 DOT 4060507 AT budcat DOT com> <20100127222134 DOT GA16920 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4B60D0BE DOT 4060705 AT budcat DOT com> <4B61D588 DOT 7090709 AT budcat DOT com> <4B61ED64 DOT 2070906 AT bopp DOT net> <20100128201502 DOT GB29067 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4B61F986 DOT 9040803 AT bopp DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B61F986.9040803@bopp.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:54:30PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >On 1/28/2010 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:02:44PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >>> On 1/28/2010 12:20 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> Rather than build your own copy of setup.exe while you wait for this >>> defect to be fixed, why not use the --packages option for setup.exe to >>> select the set of packages you know you need from the command line? If >>> your users would have difficulty with that, you could write a simple >>> batch file to wrap the setup.exe invocation. >> >> OTOH, modifying source code and rolling your own copy is precisely why >> Free Software project exists in the first place. IMO, this is a great >> way of dealing with this kind of situation. I wish more people were >> willing to look at source code. > >True enough, and hopefully Heath will send along the patches to fix the >problem. It just seems in this case that distributing a locally built >setup.exe is a bit like hammering a finishing nail with a sledge hammer. > Yeah, it works, but it takes far more effort than required to do the >job. :-) The alternative being to notify a presumably large user base of unknown technical competency about a change in procedure? Telling someone to "just use this binary" seems a lot simpler to me. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple