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Re: installer chokes on unix line endings


On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:33:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:52, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Ironic, isn't it?  If you download setup.ini with unix line endings, the
>> installer fails to parse it.  I'm guessing this can't be too hard to fix.
>
>Fix what? Setup is responsible for doing it's own downloads. If you use
>an external tool - presumably because you're setting up your own mirror
>- it's your responsibility to give setup the same things it expects from
>the official mirrors.
>
>That said, it's probably easy enough to tweak the parser, and I'll
>review a patch happily.

I'm confused.  As I mentioned, setup.ini is built on linux and the setup.ini
that setup.exe downloaded to my local directory has UNIX line endings.

cgf

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