X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:03:57 -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: <20100128230357.GC10714@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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B61D588.7090709@budcat.com> 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 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 -- 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