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From: Pavel Rozenboim <pavelr AT coresma DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Download problems due to GNU bc package?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:38:20 +0200
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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
> 
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