Installer does not list any files in Package Selection

[Ralf Habacker]

Patrick Spendrin schrieb:
> Matthew Gibbs schrieb:
>   
>> ----------------original message-----------------
>> From: "Patrick Spendrin" 
>> To: gaboo at gaboo.org, "KDE on Windows" kde-windows at kde.org
>> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:57:39 +0200
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>     
>>> Gaël Beaudoin schrieb:
>>>       
>>>> Le Wednesday 30 July 2008 21:15:34 Matthew Gibbs, vous avez écrit :
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi all-I installed 4.0.83 last week and now would like to install 4.1.0
>>>>> instead. I tried to update but it did not list any packages to update (I
>>>>> now think the mirrors.lst was/is pointing to the 4.0.83 dir for the 
>>>>> mirror
>>>>> I chose) so I tried to remove all of the KDE stuff I had installed so
>>>>>           
>> that
>>     
>>>>> I could start out fresh. Now, despite my best attempts, I cannot get any
>>>>> packages to show in the Package Selection list. I really need to add
>>>>>           
>> some
>>     
>>>>> KDE goodness to my work computer but I'm stuck. I have the latest
>>>>>           
>> version
>>     
>>>>> of the installer and have attempted to delete anything related to KDE in
>>>>> the filesystem.TIAMatt
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>           
>>>> I've had the same problem. Run the installer again and just add this
>>>>         
>> mirror 
>>     
>>>> manually :
>>>>
>>>> http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/releases/stable/latest/
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Yeah, this works for now but please don't be so impatient - the mirrors 
>>> will be synced hopefully tomorrow and KDE 4.1 will be available then.
>>>       
>>>> Hope it helps.
>>>>         
>>> Thanks for testing this btw.!
>>>       
>>>> Gael
>>>>         
>>> regards,
>>> PatrickI did look at mirrors.lst and tried to pick one that had been
>>>       
>> updated already (the columbia.edu mirror) but it still did not show
>> anything.  I also tried to put in the path for the tds.net mirror too but
>> still nothing.  I can't use FTP here so I didn't try that.  The config.txt
>> in the columbia mirror gave a version of 4.1.0 too, so maybe it didn't
>> completely sync?  I'm not sure how the installer and the mirrors interact.
>>     
> yes, the packages have been copied over but I had to change something in 
>   the config file and this one is to old.
> You should find the following lines in the config.txt on a mirror if it 
> has been updated:
> ;------------------------------------------------------
> ; all packages on the mirror
> ;------------------------------------------------------
> @site all
> @type apachemodindex
> @url .
> @exclude config.txt
>
> If you can find this in the config.txt then you can choose this mirror 
> and the package selection list will be populated.
>   
look at the config.txt @timestamp line - this is a better indicator if a 
config file is too old.  The last official value was 200807292000, which 
is 2008-07-29 20:00.

When there are changes after that time the timestamp should be newer.


Ralf