Re: Broken install, postinstall problems

["Matthew O. Persico" <matthew dot persico at verizon dot net>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:34:32 -0400, Greg Mosier typed:
>?Hi list,
>
>?It's been a while since I've played with cygwin and I've just
>?recently came back to it. ?Well... ?I had the same problems this
>?time as I did in the past, only last time I wasn't aware that there
>?was a problem. ?It seems that there are quite a few users that have
>?experienced this same issue, the one where the postinstall doesn't
>?happen as it should. ?The fix for the problem is so amazingly
>?simple that all those that have looked at the problem before and
>?examined the log files and didn't find the problem should be
>?ashamed.
>
>?I'm posting this to the list as I never did find a fix for it on
>?the net, which I still can't believe. ?When you see someone mention
>?this problem tell them to have a look at setup.log.full for this:
>
>?[base-files] action=Skip trust=curr installed=none src?=no
>?categories=All, Base [Prev] ver=2.5-1
>
>?You see, I never selected for it to skip this, where inlies a
>?massive oversight on someone's part along the way. ?When I setup
>?cygwin I changed default to install on 'All' and for some totally
>?obscure reason, it seems, when you do this, the damned installer
>?decides it needs to skip base-files and aspell-dev. ?Mind you, out
>?of the endless packages it is amazingly odd that it decides to skip
>?these two, and these two alone.
>
>?Anyhow, I hope this helps someone.

Can this fix be applied to solve this problem:

Message-ID: <20040413020722.GB17929@coe.bosbc.com>

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Matthew O. Persico



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