Harold L Hunt II wrote:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/cygwin-setup-161pct.png
I just uploaded XFree86 4.3.0 packages this morning. Some of the
mirrors have gotten the updated setup.ini and packages already, while
others have not.
In setup I have selected three mirrors:
archive.progeny.com
mirrors.rcn.net
planetmirror.com
The problem is that at least one of these mirrors has the updated
setup.ini file, as the 4.3.0-1 XFree86 packages are listed and
selected for installation. However, when setup downloads the packages
it is not associating the actual file it is retrieving with the
setup.ini from that site, thus it thinks that it is retrieving a 3293k
XFree86-bin-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2 file while it is actually retrieving a
roughly 13 MB file.
When setup reaches the size of the file that it thinks it is
downloading, the % complete continues to grow above 100% (see link for
screenshot at the top of the email). When the file is finished, setup
reports that the download was incomplete and asks if I would like to
try again.
I am sure that this has already been reported, yelled about, and fixed
or refused. So, let me point out that I have absolutely no stock in
whether this ever gets fixed, I am not asking anyone to fix it, I am
simply reporting it so that such weirdness is fresh on the minds of
people downloading the new XFree86 packages.
Of course, this could be due to some entirely unrelated problem,
probably caused by me, in which case we can all ignore that I ever
said anything. I will notify the lists in such an event ;)
Boy that Harold is quite a b*stard. He comes through here, complaining
about this and that. Who needs him! Oh... is this on the list???
Eh-hem. Ah, let me rephrase. ;-)
Thanks Harold for this report. Actually, I think this has been reported
before somewhat recently but there wasn't allot of information about the
cause. So I think the link you've suggested between the packages and
the setup.ini files is quite useful.
I'm redirecting this discussion to cygwin-apps, since it's the list which
discusses setup issues.