Dependencies are not tracking on Windows Server 2003 x64

[alexbruy]

On 64-bit systems OSGeo4W installer works incorrectly. There is no dependencies tracking when selecting packages. For example, when qgis-dev package selected for installation, grass, gdal, python and all others packages are not selected.

Tested on Windows Server 2003 x64.

Some discussion in Russian on GIS-Lab:  http://gis-lab.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4110

[maphew]

FWIW On Windows7 x64 setup seems to selects dependencies correctly. On a new machine I ran Setup > Advanced Install > Download only > Next > cycled [view] until I got a complete list of packages > scrolled down and selected 'qgis-dev'. The following packages were downloaded:

curl
expat
fftw
freetype
gdal
geos
grass
gsl
hdf4
hdf5
iconv
jpeg
libgeotiff
libpng
libpq
libtiff
msvcrt
msys
mysql
netcdf
ogdi
openssl
pdcurses
proj
python
qgis
qt
sqlite3
tcltk
xerces-c
zlib

[gislab]

might this be related to system locale? If you check two screenshots here  http://gis-lab.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4110[[BR]]

first - Winserver 2003 with russian locale (problems), second - "pure" English - no problems, note ? signs in the russian one.

[alexbruy]

Confirmed on Windows XP x64

[gislab]

Unfortunately it seems to persist on other machines.

Dependencies are shown as ? and are not selected automatically when package is selected.

This is Advanced/Internet? install.

 http://gis-lab.info/images/screenshots/20110215-rvl-181kb.jpg[[BR]]  http://gis-lab.info/images/screenshots/20110215-w1f-44kb.jpg

[maphew]

Bug confirmed on Windows 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition, Service Pack 2.

Regional and Language Options	English (United States)
Location	United States
Text Services and Language Options	English (Canada), US keyboard
Advanced (non-unicode)	English (United States)

pkg-apt is a workaround.