Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/17/10:50:46
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Koide Yousuke wrote:
> I use cygwin setup-2.249.2.5 and tried to download
> the new cygiwn-1.3.13-2.But setup displays only cygwin-
> 1.3.12-4 (Now I use) and 1.3.10.So I can not download it.
Some mirrors fall really behind on the latest updates. I used the
following procedure to find the best mirror: after a new cygwin package is
released, I first browsed ftp://cygwin.com/ to find that package (it can't
be downloaded from there), and then looked at the mirrors until I found
one that had the package. You may want to find two or three and compare
them for speed, though. I haven't used the mirrors in Asia, but
archive.progeny.com seems to be reasonably quick with their updates
(within a day), and there are others that update even faster.
> I wonder setup has problems recognizing the versions of
> packages.(I have perl-5.8.0-1 but setup always displays
> "5.6.0 is new.")
This has nothing to do with setup. perl-5.8.0 is marked 'experimental',
and thus not offered as an upgrade unless you select the 'Exp' radio
button.
Igor
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