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Subject:	Re: setup troubles: Download incomplete
Date:	Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:36:47 -0000
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Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) <lhall AT rfk DOT com> wrote:


> I thought
> all the messages about "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"
> were gone now. Perhaps I'm wrong.

I'm afraid so. I've seen this message occasionally (unfortunately, since I
don't do much downloading with setup, I haven't got around to nailing down
precise reproduction steps.)
[With recent setup, BTW]

> You need to pick
> multiple mirrors at the same time in order for setup to understand
> that it should only download a package if it doesn't exist in another
> mirror's directory already.

True. Maybe this is a bug?

Max.


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