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RE: Anyone looking at the 'setup.exe' 2.510.2.1 crashing problem?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:28:48 +0100
- Subject: RE: Anyone looking at the 'setup.exe' 2.510.2.1 crashing problem?
----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 08 September 2005 16:27
>> This doesn't seem to be a problem with the package database. You can
>> add a "umount --remove-all-mounts" to the above, choose a different root
>> during installation and still get the same result.
>
> Looks like Dave mis-spoke -- he said "package database", but he seems to
> have been talking about the "local package cache".
Yep, absolutely. However, that's a secondary problem: that's down to
packageversion::scan calling check_for_cached without putting a try...except
wrapper around it, as is done everywhere else.
cheers,
DaveK
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