Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/02/07/22:28:49
Yuk, top-posting. Reformatted.
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, linda w wrote:
> Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote:
>
> > Would not it be great if Cygwin's setup did not just fail if
> > mirrors.lst is unavailable and continued with just last server in the
> > list? I tried to install Cygwin KDE, but setup was failing on a
> > completely unrelated to what I was doing problem.
>
> I 2nd this request -- wanted to install some other packages but was
> blocked by the mirrors.txt download -- maybe it could use a cached copy
> of mirrors.txt to look at other mirror files -- i.e. cache mirrors.txt
> on the existing mirrors so if cygwin server is down, setup would use
> existing mirrors to avoid a single point of failure -- but still check
> mirrors.txt on cygwin.com if it was up.
The best way to second such requests is with a patch. Remember,
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. :-)
Igor
--
http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
|\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
"The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total
Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
- Raw text -