Broken install, postinstall problems

Wed Apr 14 00:23:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年4月13日 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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