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RE: New version of setup - prerelease available
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Mark Himsley" <mark at mdsh dot com>,"Cygwin" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 21:18:58 +1000
- Subject: RE: New version of setup - prerelease available
Sounds like there is a memory leak or somesuch. With the MD5 sums in
ini's I'll be able to do some proper testing myself now.
How many packages where you installing?
Which ones?
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Himsley [mailto:mark@mdsh.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:17 PM
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: Re: New version of setup - prerelease available
>
>
> On Wed, 1 May 2002 21:33:22 +1000 you wrote:
>
> >I've uploaded a new version of setup.exe, and source, to
> >http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-md5-20020501.exe
>
> I've just tried to use this...
>
> As usual, I did a 'Download from Internet' followed by an
> 'Install from Local Drive'.
>
> The download worked like a dream.
> The install didn't.
>
> For the install it got as far as the page which says:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Process
> This page displays the progress of the download or installation.
>
> Installing...
> (PKG)
> (FILE)
> Package [ bar graph... ]
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The package chooser window is not opened. Nothing is
> displayed after the
> (PKG) or (FILE) and the bar graph does not move. The process
> eats memory until it gets up to ~168MB and then ends.
> Nothing is installed. setup.log and setup.log.full are not
> modified (the last things logged were the downloads of the
> files from the previous run).
>
> Version 2.194.2.25 happily installed the packages which your
> beta had downloaded.
>
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> Mark Himsley
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