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 Message-ID: <41BFDB60.1000201@sun.ac.za> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:36:16 +0200 From: Gorden Jemwa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updating cygwin - problems with mirror site References: <41BEAFA4.4000108@sun.ac.za> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks Igor. I am up and running again :) Gorden Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > 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 -- 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/