Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: jorg.schaible@db.com Subject: setup blues To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:05:17 +0000 Message-ID: X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on sdbo1003/DMGUK/DeuBaInt/DeuBa(Release 5.0.3 (Intl)|21 March 2000) at 15/06/2000 03:05:20 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id KAA01193 Hello, while DJ is working on a new version of setup I stumbled over a 'misbehaviour' caused by broken mirror sites. Currently all of the lately updated packages (dbg, tcktk, make) are missing on my favourite mirror ftp.sunsite.org.uk - there's just an directory with a single md5.sum file. This can cause major problems for your Cygwin environment at a first installation, since you never know wether for some reason a significant package was missing - setup currently no feature to detect this and reports no error. I recognized similar behaviour when downloading form the sourceware server hitting the connection limit during the download. Such a weird Cygwin installation may cause major problems particularly with regard to newbies using setup without beeing aware of such a problem. This may cause also unnecessary and ineffective traffic in the list. Suggestion: Setup should reference a plain text file in 'latest' that contains all packages belonging to a Cygwin installation. If any of the packages could not be found during the download, the installation should not proceed (at least not without a warning). ... yes I know, submissions welcome, but this implies also a change in the general deployment procedure of Cygwin that should be agreed to ... Jörg :) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com