Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <7BCD42353C1FD411A66200062939B2F1746CF9@EXCHANGE> From: Pavel Rozenboim To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Download problems due to GNU bc package? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:38:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Works for me. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenneth Lareau [mailto:elessar AT numenor DOT org] > Sent: Thu, September 19, 2002 8:33 PM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Cc: elessar AT numenor DOT org > Subject: Download problems due to GNU bc package? > > > Hello, > > A search of the cygwin archives for August and September > didn't show any > mention of this, but I recently noticed that if one attempts > to download > the Cygwin distribution (for local installs) and includes the GNU bc > package, only a small percentage of the available packages > are actually > retrieved; uninstalling or avoiding bc seems to solve this > issue. Fin- > ding the correct "culprit" occurred when I attempted to > install directly > from the mirror sites (several, in fact), and it immediately failed at > the GNU bc install, causing the whole setup program to abort. > > Is this a known issue? It seems to affect every mirror site > I've tried. > I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but it > could be very > frustrating for those for which this is also occurring... > > (Please note, I'm not subscribed to the list, but I felt that > if this is > a real issue, it should probably be made known if it already > hasn't been > noticed.) > > > Ken Lareau > elessar AT numenor DOT org > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/