Re: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again?

[Paul <Paul dot Domaskis at gmail dot com>]

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] <BBuchbinder <at> niaid.nih.gov> writes:
>   (A) Try splitting it into two operations:
>     1. "Download Without Installing".
>     2. "Install from Local Directory".
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-11/msg00329.html

Already doing this, since I am trying to create a CD of install packages.

>   (B) Sometimes the only part that is incomplete is renaming foo.tmp
> to foo.bz2.  Try renaming any foo.tmp file you find it by hand and
> see if it will "Install from Local Directory".
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00206.html
>
>   (C) If there are still problems, don't do everything at once.  For
> example, do only one category at a time.  (.../2004-06/msg00206.html
> again)

I'm trying to replicate the packages in an existing install, so I basically 
select Re-install rather than individually selecting packages.  Manually 
identifying each package is possible, of course, but that will go on a to-do 
list for a longer time.  Trying to find alternatives to that first.

>   (D) FAQ material?

The relevant question seems to be "2.13. What if setup fails?".  The answer is 
the check the setup.log, which I've done.  Nothing there except an error 
provided to the user.

One thing I will do is see if the recorded entries match the order of the 
packages in cygcheck.  If so, and if the error happens at/during the last 
package, then I assume that all is well, and that your suggestion (B) would be 
easy to follow up on.

Thanks, Barry.


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