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 X-T2-Posting-ID: IBEbVI5rtGvBBu0aty/gAw== Message-ID: <42552AFB.1090404@ege.cc> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:43:39 +0200 From: Bernhard Ege User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe troubles References: <4253C27A.7020506@ege.cc> <011d01c53aad$14104150$6508a8c0@chimaera> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Michael A Chase wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:32:26 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > > >>Bernhard Ege wrote: >> >>>I have accidently overwritten some of the mirrors that setup.exe offers >>>and I would like it to start out fresh. My problem is however that I >>>cannot see anyway to reset the list. >>> >>>So, how do I make setup.exe reinitialise the offered mirror list? >> >>I don't understand. The mirror list is reloaded from cygwin.com every time >>setup.exe runs. > > > Perhaps he is talking about the saved list of mirrors that will be used. > Deleting /etc/setup/last-mirror will clear that. > Well, myproblem originated in the fact(?) that sunsite.dk isn't available as a mirror anymore and I thought that was a problem with my cache, but apparently any mirror site manually added has to be added on every setup.exe run. I just thought seup.exe could remember any sites added. Setup.exe has a problem though. It cannot remember the proxy port and always defaults to 80 regardsless. /etc/setup/last-connection contains the correct information, though. Bernhard -- 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/