Re: Cygwin Announcements and FTP mirrors

[Jon Maltz <jmaltz at mediaone dot net>]

I used setup.exe yesterday, starting with ftp.freesoftware.com and had to
kill it because I was getting a 550 error for login-1.4.  So I reran it
with ftp.sunsite.utk.edu, which was supposed to have it.  I was able to get
login-1.4 fine, but then one of the next packages gives me a 550 error, and
I had to exit setup.exe and rerun it with gd.tuwien.ac.at.  Then THAT one
was missing a file, and I had to switch again to one of the other ones.

I can understand a mirror not being quite up to synch with just released
files, but it's very annoying to have to keep exiting setup.exe and
restarting it to switch to another mirror which does have the file, and
then switch back when it doesn't have one of the next files.

Since getting mirrors up to date on a rapidly moving target will always be
somewhat problematic, perhaps setup.exe can be modified to deal with this
in a more elegant manner.  If a file is not found, perhaps it can pull up
the mirrors list again, and allow you to select a different mirror, rather
than just moving on and installing a partial distribution, which is what it
wanted to do.

Jon


At 10:33 AM 8/1/2000 -0400, Chris Faylor wrote something like this:
>On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:35:33AM +0200, Patrice Gremeau wrote:
>>I want to make a remark.
>>
>>Since several days, there have been a lot of annoucements for updated
>>packages in cygwin/latest.  And every time it is the same: the FTP
>>links points to incomplete, even empty sites and the only solution
>>remains the 'busy site' sourceware.cygnus.com.  Thanks to do something
>>about that.
>
>The "ftp links" are intended to be used with the setup program.  They
>aren't intended for you to use for downloading from some site.
>Certainly the site names should be enough of a clue for you to scroll up
>and down looking for a mirror site in setup's mirror dialog.
>
>However, that said, I have tried the ftp links mentioned and they work
>flawlessly.  They do not point to "incomplete" or "empty" sites.
>Possibly you are confused because they do not take you directly to the
>tar ball for you to download.  That is not the intent, of the
>announcement, however.
>
>You obviously have either cockpit, firewall, or other networking
>problems.  I suggest that you just stick with setup.exe.
>
>cgf
>
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