[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

Fri Jan 28 14:56:34 GMT 2022

On 27/01/2022 07:28, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
>>> On 25/1/22 7:02 am, Jon Turney wrote:
> > A new version of Setup (2.917) has been uploaded to:
> >
> >   https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe  (64 bit version)
> >   https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe     (32 bit version)
> >
> > Changes compared to 2.915:
> ...
>> I've had a new problem with this version, which I have been able to
> work around.

I guess this means 2.915 didn't have this problem.
> I normally do a two stage update of Cygwin, with the second stage
> being running down the "Install from Local Directory" path.
>> This was silently existing. As it turned out, it was doing so as I had
> an old, setup.ini from a mirror I had unintentionally selected (rather
> than my preferred mirror). Here's the preamble to that setup.ini:
>[...]
>> I moved that out of the way, and then was able to proceed.
>> I was fortunate that I acted on a hunch. Otherwise, even with -v on
> command line, there was nothing that could indicate to me what was
> causing the issue.
>> I'm hoping that this silent exit can be fixed, to at least give an
> indication, via logging or pop-up or other, of what is blocking the
> install.

Thanks for reporting this.
This seems to be a crash which occurs if you're not using 'download and 
install' mode, and have cached setup.ini files from multiple mirrors, 
and those differ in if any install package for a given source package is 
available.
I've uploaded an updated setup with an attempted fix for this:
 https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.917-3-g489d9c.x86_64.exe
 https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.917-3-g489d9c.x86.exe
Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you?
Thanks.