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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.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Himsley
> In Acton
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