Re: setup release candidate - please test

["Ian Lambert via cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, 5/26/17, Jon Turney <> wrote:
 Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test
 To: "The Cygwin Mailing List" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
 Cc: "Ian Lambert" <>
 Date: Friday, May 26, 2017, 8:05 AM
 
 On 17/05/2017 20:38, Jon Turney
 wrote:
 > On 16/05/2017 15:06, Jon Turney wrote:
 >> I don't know why unrecognized
 options aren't fatal errors.
 > 
 > So, I might have been misled by my low
 opinion of setup here:
 > 
 >> $ ./setup-x86_64
 --user-agent=anything
 >>
 >> Error during option processing.
 > [...]
 

Apparently there is a difference in response when running 
setup from a desktop icon versus command line.
You were not misled. Another detail is I am also using
--no-admin (but that doesn't seem to matter in this case).



 > Can you give an example of a setup command
 line containing an invalid 
 > option
 which "quietly does nothing" rather than reporting
 an error?

The example above, when started from a desktop icon,
in windos 7 enterprise.


> Depending on the results of the tests suggested with wget, I
 may
 >> consider changing or removing
 the user-agent reported by cygwin setup,
 >> or providing such an option.
 > 
 > This snapshot adds a
 --user-agent option, which allows the user agent 
 > string to be specified.
 > 
 > https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878-8-gee3cea.x86.exe
 > https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878-8-gee3cea.x86_64.exe
 
> Ping?
 
 > Could you let me know if this helps, or if
 you've given up, so I know 
 what to do
 with these patches?
 --------

Sorry, I missed seeing this before. The suggestion of testing 
combinations of wget, curl and lynx with a few different user agents
was more than I had time for then, but I haven't given up.

I tried the above setup 3 ways. It doesn't help. 
With Firefox user agent and proxy entered
With iE user agent and proxy entered
With iE user agent and use iE settings selected

Setup does not ask for username and password.
Wget needs those and gets them from .wgetrc or .bashrc.

Logs are below. The first 2 are very similar. 3rd is a little different.
I also re-verified wget still works with the same 2 user agents (or no user agent).


$ cat setup.log.full-proxy-ff-ua ; echo ; cat setup.log.full-proxy-ie-ua ; echo ; cat setup.log.full-iesettings-ie-ua 
2017/05/26 10:23:15 Starting cygwin install, version 2.878-8-gee3cea
2017/05/26 10:23:15 User has NO backup/restore rights
2017/05/26 10:23:15 Current Directory: E:\cygwin64-mirror\ftwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin
2017/05/26 10:23:15 Could not open Service control manager
2017/05/26 10:23:22 source: network install
2017/05/26 10:23:25 root: E:\cygwin64-3 user
2017/05/26 10:23:27 Selected local directory: E:\cygwin64-mirror\ftwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin
2017/05/26 10:23:30 net: Proxy
Cached mirror list unavailable
Defaulting to empty mirror list
2017/05/26 10:23:32 site: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
2017/05/26 10:23:32 mbox note: Unable to get setup from <http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/>
INSTALLED.DB version 3
2017/05/26 10:23:36 Ending cygwin install

2017/05/26 10:25:28 Starting cygwin install, version 2.878-8-gee3cea
2017/05/26 10:25:28 User has NO backup/restore rights
2017/05/26 10:25:28 Current Directory: E:\cygwin64-mirror\ftwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin
2017/05/26 10:25:28 Could not open Service control manager
2017/05/26 10:25:31 source: network install
2017/05/26 10:25:32 root: E:\cygwin64-3 user
2017/05/26 10:25:33 Selected local directory: E:\cygwin64-mirror\ftwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin
2017/05/26 10:25:39 net: Proxy
Cached mirror list unavailable
Defaulting to empty mirror list
2017/05/26 10:25:40 site: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
2017/05/26 10:25:40 mbox note: Unable to get setup from <http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/>
INSTALLED.DB version 3
2017/05/26 10:25:43 Ending cygwin install

2017/05/26 10:27:07 Starting cygwin install, version 2.878-8-gee3cea
2017/05/26 10:27:07 User has NO backup/restore rights
2017/05/26 10:27:07 Current Directory: E:\cygwin64-mirror\ftwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin
2017/05/26 10:27:07 Could not open Service control manager
2017/05/26 10:27:10 source: network install
2017/05/26 10:27:11 root: E:\cygwin64-3 user
2017/05/26 10:27:12 Selected local directory: E:\cygwin64-mirror\ftwin\mirrors.kernel.org\sourceware\cygwin
2017/05/26 10:27:15 net: IE5
Cached mirror list unavailable
2017/05/26 10:27:15 HTTP status 403 fetching http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst
Defaulting to empty mirror list
2017/05/26 10:27:16 site: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
2017/05/26 10:27:16 HTTP status 403 fetching http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.xz.sig
2017/05/26 10:27:16 HTTP status 403 fetching http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.xz
2017/05/26 10:27:16 HTTP status 403 fetching http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.bz2.sig
2017/05/26 10:27:16 HTTP status 403 fetching http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.bz2
2017/05/26 10:27:16 HTTP status 403 fetching http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini.sig
2017/05/26 10:27:16 HTTP status 403 fetching http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini
2017/05/26 10:27:16 mbox note: Unable to get setup from <http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/>
INSTALLED.DB version 3
2017/05/26 10:27:22 Ending cygwin install



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