Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:06:54 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Gorden Jemwa cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updating cygwin - problems with mirror site In-Reply-To: <41BEAFA4.4000108@sun.ac.za> Message-ID: References: <41BEAFA4.4000108@sun.ac.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Gorden Jemwa wrote: > I am trying to update my cygwin installation from a mirror. > Unfortunately, every time I run setup the utility is still only seeing > old packages and the setup.ini timestamp is also old. If I change the > mirror the setup.ini file generated is current. What could be the > problem with the other mirror? BTW, the problem mirror has all the > latest packages based on a check of the directory listing. > Also, JTBS (just to be sure), using a different mirror is less > appropriate in my case because i get billed for every MB! > > If anyone knows, please let me know and I will inform the site > maintainer. Are you by any chance using the "Use IE5 Settings" setup option? If so, you may have stale copies of the files in your cache. Configure your IE to check the page timestamp every time, not once per session. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.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/