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On 8/23/2012 6:03 AM, Martin.Fitzpatrick@sita.aero wrote:Hi,
I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article "Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours". Ken Brown's response to that post was hopeful, but may have underestimated the scope of the problem, putting it down to "something else going on with your system, maybe having to do with your VM." My installation was on a laptop, not a VM, and while I wouldn't claim that it's a powerful machine, I'm still very surprised at the install time. I also think it remarkable that most (something like 90%) of the install time was spent in the texlive postinstall phase; so in other words, most of the install ran at an acceptable speed (~16 mins to get to the start of the postinstall phase- not too bad for a slow laptop) but the first texlive task ("/etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh") then took 25 mins- more than the rest of the install up to that point.
So, I would say to Ken Brown- "Keep up the good work"- but please consider raising its priority! At the time of writing you had fixed 29 postinstall
There is definitely some inefficiency in the postinstall scripts when many texlive-collection-* packages are installed at once. I'm working on finding a better way of doing it. See the thread starting at
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2012-08/msg00001.html
scripts and there were 45 remaining. Some users are being hit very hard by this and in fact I aborted the install several times before I realized that it wasn't hanging completely and that the postfix to the "/etc/postinstall/texlive-..." message in the install window was actually changing from time to time- it was that slow! I can send the setup.log.full if you want to see the timestamps for yourself.
Yes, I would like to see setup.log.full. If it's huge, you can send it off list, or just post it somewhere for me to download.
texlive-collection-fontsextra.sh texlive-collection-fontsrecommended.sh texlive-collection-formatsextra.sh texlive-collection-htmlxml.sh texlive-collection-langcjk.sh
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