Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:08:15 -0230 (NDT) From: Neil Zanella To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: download script Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, I just downloaded Cygwin using the setup utility found on the Cygwin website. I chose "Download from Internet" and then "Direct Connection" as my options. After choosing a mirror the setup script started to download the various packages. At the end of the downloading the setup script prompted me with the following message: "Download Complte". Later on I found the following file which the setup program had written to my disk (see below). The file indicated that two of the packages (in this case byacc and opengl) had not been downloaded. I then reran the setup script and the two files were downloaded successfully. Last time I downloaded Cygwin the same problem had happened: I was missing binutils. Now comes my suggestion: The "Download Complete" message is a little bit inappropriate when not all packages have been downloaded. A better message would have been something like "47 out of 49 Packages Downloaded Succesfully." "Download remaining packages? [Yes] [No]" Alternatively the setup program could retry outomatically a few times so that when ftp fails another attempt is made. Many modern ftp programs like wget, ws_ftp, wxftp, etc... actually do this. However a warning would be enough if this sounds too complicated. Either way, thanks a lot for cygwin! Neil source: download Selected local directory: E:\ net: Direct site: ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin Downloaded latest/ash/ash-20000823.tar.gz Downloaded latest/bash/bash-2.04-1.tar.gz Downloaded latest/binutils/binutils-20000722-1.tar.gz Downloaded latest/bison/bison.tar.gz Download latest/byacc/byacc.tar.gz failed Downloaded latest/bzip2/bzip2.tar.gz Downloaded latest/clear/clear-1.0.tar.gz Downloaded latest/crypt/crypt-1.0.tar.gz Downloaded contrib/cvs/cvs-1.10.8-2.tar.gz Downloaded latest/cygwin/cygwin-1.1.4.tar.gz Downloaded latest/dejagnu/dejagnu.tar.gz Downloaded latest/diff/diff.tar.gz Downloaded latest/expect/expect.tar.gz Downloaded latest/fileutils/fileutils.tar.gz Downloaded latest/findutils/findutils.tar.gz Downloaded latest/flex/flex.tar.gz Downloaded latest/gawk/gawk-3.0.4.tar.gz Downloaded latest/gcc/gcc-2.95.2-2.tar.gz Downloaded latest/gdb/gdb-20000610.tar.gz Downloaded contrib/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.0-2.tar.gz Downloaded latest/gperf/gperf.tar.gz Downloaded latest/grep/grep.tar.gz Downloaded latest/groff/groff-1.11a-1.tar.gz Downloaded latest/gzip/gzip.tar.gz Downloaded latest/inetutils/inetutils-1.3.2-7.tar.gz Downloaded contrib/jbigkit/jbigkit-1.2-2.tar.gz Downloaded contrib/jpeg/jpeg-6b-2.tar.gz Downloaded latest/less/less.tar.gz Downloaded contrib/libpng/libpng-1.0.8-1.tar.gz Downloaded latest/login/login-1.4-1.tar.gz Downloaded latest/m4/m4.tar.gz Downloaded latest/make/make-3.79.1-1.tar.gz Downloaded latest/man/man-1.5g-2.tar.gz Downloaded latest/mt/mt-1.9.1.tar.gz Download latest/opengl/opengl-1.1.0-2.tar.gz failed Downloaded latest/openssh/openssh-2.2.0p1.tar.gz Downloaded latest/openssl/openssl-0.9.5a.tar.gz Downloaded latest/patch/patch.tar.gz Downloaded latest/sed/sed-3.02-1.tar.gz Downloaded latest/shellutils/shellutils.tar.gz Downloaded latest/tar/tar.tar.gz Downloaded latest/tcltk/tcltk-20000610.tar.gz Downloaded latest/termcap/termcap-20000630.tar.gz Downloaded latest/texinfo/texinfo.tar.gz Downloaded latest/textutils/textutils-2.0-1.tar.gz Downloaded contrib/tiff/tiff-3.5.5-2.tar.gz Downloaded latest/time/time.tar.gz Downloaded latest/vim/vim-5.7-4.tar.gz Downloaded contrib/zlib/zlib-1.1.3-4.tar.gz mbox note: Download Complete 2000/10/09 17:00:55 Ending cygwin install -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com