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RE: setup change this year?
- From: "Rutten, Mark" <Mark dot Rutten at dsto dot defence dot gov dot au>
- To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:22:37 +1030
- Subject: RE: setup change this year?
Thanks for your help. I will download and try out the debug version soon.
Mark.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Friday, 30 January 2004 12:02 PM
> To: Rutten, Mark; 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Re: setup change this year?
>
>
> At 06:38 PM 1/29/2004, Rutten, Mark you wrote:
>
> >Is there something different about the way that "setup" runs
> since Christmas?
> >
> >I have a local mirror of the cygwin packages (neatened up
> using Michael Chase's clean_setup perl script) which I access
> across the local network. I always call setup with the "-5"
> option (no md5 checks).
> >
> >All was working fine last year, now setup bogs down my
> machine (excessive processor usage by the "system" process)
> after parsing the setup.ini file. My first impression is
> that setup is doing the md5 checks without telling me that it
> is, but I can't be sure. My main confusion stems from the
> fact that there hasn't been any changes in the setup program
> since last October(ish) - I'm using version 2.416.
> >
> >If anyone could please give me some hints, that would be fantastic.
>
>
> Sounds like a local network problem if you're actually just
> using a local
> mirror and not just using it in addition to other mirrors on
> the Internet.
> That's just a WAG though. Perhaps you want to visit:
>
> <http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/>
>
> You can pull down 2.418 (really just adds resizable controls)
> and see if
> it acts differently. You can also pull down the debug
> version of 2.415.
> If it acts similarly, it would give you a quick basis to debug from,
> without having to rebuild 2.416. But if you're really serious about
> finding your problem, building 2.416 as debug locally is probably your
> best course of action.
>
>
>
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