1.5 is coming... please test away!

Fri Aug 22 13:17:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Elfyn" == Elfyn McBratney <elfyn@cygwin.com> writes:

 Elfyn> Now what would be nice(tm), is if users of these packages
 Elfyn> could test them out[1] as much as possible before they go
 Elfyn> current, so as to make sure they're working OK (for you, at
 Elfyn> least).
Here's what I did and saw when trying out the "Experimental" stuff.
Executive summary: some packages failed to be downloaded, and
postinstall stuff didn't run.
* Ensured I was starting with a clean machine (Win2K Pro, service pack
 4, with all "critical" updates from windowsupdate.com) by removing
 the c:\cygwin directory, and the registry keys
 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions and
 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions.
* Ran http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe:
** Hit "Next" five times in a row
** chose http://mirrors.xmission.com as the download site
** hit Alt-X to choose the "Exp" version
** hit Alt-N to start the downloads, waited, then hit "Enter" to click
 the "Finish" button. To my surprise, I saw no console window
 appear to run the postinstall stuff.
* clicked the new "Cygwin" icon on the desktop
* typed `uname -a'. This causes a message box to appear, titled
 "uname.exe - Unable to Locate DLL". The DLL in question was
 "cygintl-2.dll".
* dismissed the popup and typed "cat /etc/passwd". The shell
 responded with "bash: cat: command not found".
* exited bash, and started plain cmd.exe. Typed "cd /c
 c:\cygwin\etc"; then typed "dir". I expected to see lots of files,
 in particular "passwd" and "group"; instead all I saw was one
 directory, named "setup".
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