setup-x86_64.exe v2.889 doesn't select additionally downloaded packages when installing from local directory

[Jon Turney]

On 06/03/2018 23:14, Robert Cohen wrote:
[...]
>> I built an updated setup with some attempted fixes for these problems.
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.889-12-g1cf567.x86.exe
>> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.889-12-g1cf567.x86_64.exe
>>
>> Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you?
[...]
> Thanks for the fixes. I tested setup-2.889-12-g1cf567.x86_64.exe, and after selecting category view on
> the installer and changing "Default" to "Install" at the top of the list, it appeared to select both the
> pre-selected and my own selected packages for installation, which if I recall correctly, is how it worked

Thanks for testing.

> before this issue arose. I did get one postinstall script error:
> 
> Package: _/libfontconfig-common
> 	fontconfig_dtd.sh exit code 2
> 
> Here's the related error from setup.log.full, along with info on the command that ran just before that one:
> 
> 2018/03/06 17:57:14 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash"
> Rebuilding info directory
> install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/latex2rtf.info.gz'
> 2018/03/06 17:57:31 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh"
> could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving
> add command failed
> 2018/03/06 17:57:31 abnormal exit: exit code=2
> 
> I looked in /etc/xml/, and the catalog file was there, containing the following:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd">
> <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"/>
> 
> Is the error from fontconfig_dtd.sh something to be concerned about?

This looks like a problem with the order postinstall steps are being 
run, possibly due to a missing dependency.

Can you please provide the setup.log.full?


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