X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:55:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Install problem on XP SP2 Message-ID: <20070420125540.GB26550@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <46259E88 DOT 9050200 AT aaronwl DOT com> <4626B121 DOT 8070206 AT aaronwl DOT com> <4e41f5c20704191012s6d562644oe288255b947a075f AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <4627EFD7 DOT 3040803 AT aaronwl DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4627EFD7.3040803@aaronwl.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:40:23PM -0500, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote: >This needs to be done by one of the sourceware admins. But I suspect >they already have machinery in place that will do this, as other sources >folders have it. We do not have the machinery in place to do an md5sum of everything in the cygwin release directory and, since that would be a time-consuming task which, IMO, would be of little benefit, I, personally, don't plan on using my currently sparse amount of free time to do anything like this. >>* the package selection screen is SLOoW! > >It used to be a lot slower, as I recall, to select a full install, >something on the order of a several minute wait. Now its only a few >seconds. Slowness I can tolerate; silently broken installations I cannot. Wow. You can't *tolerate* this? I guess you'd better look into writing your Congressman or something. If setup.exe is not downloading everything that it says it is downloading then it is a setup.exe problem. If you want to do something about that, debug setup.exe. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/