why minimals fail on windows

why minimals fail on windows

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

I think that I have found the culprit why the installer for minimals
fails on windows. If one tries to install minimals to some location
with uppercase letters in folder names, rsync fails to create new
folders at that location.

So if Hans installs them to top folder, it works fine for him, but
when I have tested them in "Temp" or "Documents and Settings, it
faild". I will try to "CD" to the desired location and then use
relative paths instead of absolute ones.

rsync on windows is a complete mess ...

Mojca
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Re: why minimals fail on windows

[Hans Hagen]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think that I have found the culprit why the installer for minimals
> fails on windows. If one tries to install minimals to some location
> with uppercase letters in folder names, rsync fails to create new
> folders at that location.
> 
> So if Hans installs them to top folder, it works fine for him, but
> when I have tested them in "Temp" or "Documents and Settings, it
> faild". I will try to "CD" to the desired location and then use
> relative paths instead of absolute ones.
> 
> rsync on windows is a complete mess ...

we should have a mingw version and not a cygwin one playing unix

(btw, i do not install in top folders -)

Hans


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