X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C23B24A.60809@veritech.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:30:18 -0400 From: "Lee D. Rothstein" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors References: <4C21521F.80303@sbcglobal.net> <4C23715F.50403@veritech.com> <20100624153755.GC22035@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4C23A6C8.2050202@veritech.com> <20100624190513.GB27543@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20100624190513.GB27543@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 6/24/2010 3:05 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: > >> On 6/24/2010 11:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Is there a problem with gnomecanvas2 package? >> >> >>> setup.exe hasn't changed since April so it's hard to see how any problem >>> you'd be having would be related to anything other than your local >>> network configuration. >>> >> I wasn't suggesting there was anything wrong with setup. >> Perhaps a problem with one or more packages? >> > Maybe you weren't but since packages are just a stream of bytes if > setup.exe stops downloading them it isn't the package's fault. It's > setup.exe's. Since lots of people are downloading packages, and since > packages are just a stream of bytes that get copied to disk, the problem > still points to an issue on your side if a download stops halfway > through. > > "Your side" might be something as simple as bad connectivity with the > mirror that you've chosen so trying another mirror would make sense. > Re: multiple mirrors attempts: been there, failed at that! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple