Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/10/21/23:22:17
Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2008-10-08, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
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>> Is the machine that's having problems using caching?
>
> I don't know. What sort of caching do you mean?
I meant could it be accessing the web through a caching server.
Sounds like it's not but I thought I'd throw it out there.
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> On the troublesome machine, I changed from "Use IE Settings" to
> "Direct Connection", which is used by one of the other machines that
> works. I also changed the server to ftp://cygwin.osuosl.org, also
> used that same working machine. Then I renamed the "packages"
> directory to get all that history out of the way. I also saved
> copies of set.log and setup.log.full, and an "ls -l" of /etc/setup,
> for whatever good that might do.
>
> Finally, I ran setup.exe with those changes. As expected, it listed
> a whole bunch of packages needing updates, including the grep and
> vim packages I knew about. I ran it to completion with no problems
> other than having to stop my cygrunsrv processes. It seems to be
> working fine now. Now we just have to wait for another update to
> some package I have and see if setup.exe recognizes the need to
> download it.
Well, since I'm sure you have all of Chuck Wilson's packages, you
can try again now. ;-)
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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