Re: Glitch-free texlive-collection-basic.sh and other uses of setup v.2.510.2.2

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 03:29:54PM +0100, Fergus wrote:
>On today's update of texlive-collection-basic I got the exit message
>Package: texlive-collection-basic
>     texlive-collection-basic.sh exit code 148
>which typically seems to follow most texlive installations.
>At subsequent uses of setup, even when there is nothing new to install, 
>the "unknown package" /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh is 
>again run, resulting in the same exit code, and this behaviour is 
>recurrent. The attempt takes an unbelievable 4 minutes each time, even 
>on a moderately new and fast machine (XP Pro SP3).
>There is a way round this. I use good old setup v.2.510.2.2 (c. 2005) 
>having deleted "message:" entries from setup.ini , which this old 
>version doesn't understand. Hey presto, the script is run, exits just 
>fine, and there is no recurrence. There may be other ways, but I don't 
>know them and can't remember reading about them here.
>
>With the editing of setup.ini described above which is a bit of a chore, 
>my preference is to use v.2.510 for everything, including brand new 
>installs both of 1.7 and the Legacy 1.5. Doing this, I have not 
>experienced another setup annoyance, where a request to install Cygwin 
>at location H:\ is ignored, and the installation proceeds remorselessly 
>to C:\cygwin\.

Please don't bother us with any problems, concerns, or observations
you have about using unsupported versions of setup.exe.

If there is a problem in a postinstall script then it's likely that
someone will fix it.  We definitely will not spend one iota of time
supporting your quixotic attempts to use an ancient version of
setup.exe.

cgf

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