make-testing-vms-w-snaps-001.py fails in CygwinDownload / package db not found

[thesecmaestro]

The make-testing-vms-w-snaps-001.py script does never get beyond setting up the windows host. Various issues seem to be related to usage of the cygwin package.

Setup: vmrun version 1.14.0 build-2305329 / vmware workstation version 11.0.0 build-2305329
Host OS: Linux kali 3.14-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.5-1kali1 (2014-06-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

guest OS:

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nrvr/wins/common/cygwin.py", line 234, in forArch
wget = CommandCapture(wgetArgs, forgoPty=True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nrvr/process/commandcapture.py", line 265, in init
self.raiseExceptionIfThereIsAReason()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nrvr/process/commandcapture.py", line 287, in raiseExceptionIfThereIsAReason
raise CommandCaptureException(exceptionMessage)
nrvr.process.commandcapture.CommandCaptureException: command:
wget
arguments:
--quiet
--timestamping
--recursive
--no-host-directories
--cut-dirs
3
--ignore-case
--reject
index.html_,-src.tar.bz2,-devel,-devel-,-debuginfo,-debuginfo-_
-P
/root/Downloads/cygwin-32
--no-parent
--level
1
-e
robots=off
--wait=1
--random-wait
http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86/release/db/

returncode: 8

Reproducibility: 3/3

http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86/release/ exists but not with the db sub-directory.
Manually browsing to http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86/release/db/ shows an error 'Sorry, we cannot find your kernels"

This seemed to be caused by 'db' value as part of packageList variable in cygwin.py (line 216 / 281)

Besides 'db' package, the following packages also have the same problem:
'man', 'libncursesw10', 'libncursesw-devel', 'terminfo', 'X.Org/libICE, X.Org/libSM, X.Org/libXau, X.Org/libxcb, X.Org/libXdmcp, X.Org/libxt'.

There seem to be other problems as well with cygwin, cause the ssh to the windows guest never completes, not even after reducing the default package list by removing these missing dependencies.
After removing these dependencies, opening cygwin terminal in guest OS fails with missing mintty item.

[thesecmaestro]

For example cygwin/bin/bash never got installed (e.g. makeTestVmWithGui never runs successfully line 582)

[srguiwiz]

Cygwin may be a moving target. It worked when that file was committed. It worked not so long ago on a machine that has in ~/Downloads/cygwin-32 a cached copy of files from late 2013 until about January 2014. It is possible Cygwin has changed since and modifications to NrvrCommander would be needed now. Was a process of trial and error to get it working in the first place.

[thesecmaestro]

Since nrvr-commander is quite dependent on this (at least for all windows guests) could you please check-in a working copy of cygwin, or attach it to this case for reference ? My intention of nrvr-commander were to use it and not to spend too much time on debugging issues :)

[srguiwiz]

Was already not sure whether Cygwin licensing allows caching (on machine running script to make VMs).

If someone would find relevant wording in Cygwin's license or documentation, I will consider a change.

Also, this project can be forked, and forks can include such files.