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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:28:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: linda w <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>
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Subject: Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file
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Yuk, top-posting.  Reformatted.

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, linda w wrote:

> Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote:
>
> > Would not it be great if Cygwin's setup did not just fail if
> > mirrors.lst is unavailable and continued with just last server in the
> > list? I tried to install Cygwin KDE, but setup was failing on a
> > completely unrelated to what I was doing problem.
>
> I 2nd this request -- wanted to install some other packages but was
> blocked by the mirrors.txt download -- maybe it could use a cached copy
> of mirrors.txt to look at other mirror files -- i.e. cache mirrors.txt
> on the existing mirrors so if cygwin server is down, setup would use
> existing mirrors to avoid a single point of failure -- but still check
> mirrors.txt on cygwin.com if it was up.

The best way to second such requests is with a patch.  Remember,
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. :-)
	Igor
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