X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Message-ID: <465E05F8.C03AEAE4@dessent.net>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:17:12 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with finding mirror lists using setup.exe
References: <000001c7a30e$1e3a8610$5aaf9230$@com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

"James Sherman Jr." wrote:

> So I took the mirrors.lst file and placed it in
> d:\cygwin\etc\setup\mirrors-lst (since I set my root directory to be
> d:\cygwin) and I still got the same error about not finding the list of
> download sites.  For some reason I guess it wasn't checking the cache?

I think the feature to consult the cached mirror list was added too
recently to have been in the stable version.

> http://cygwin.mirrors.hoobly.com) then I got an error saying that it was:
> "Unable to get setup.ini from <http://cygwin.mirrors.hoobly.com>"
> I tried a couple other mirrors and got the same error.  Furthermore, when I
> manually put the mirrors.lst file in d:\cygwin\etc\setup\mirrors-lst, the
> mirrors list was populated correctly with the 2.572 version. Same error
> about setup.ini still occurs though.

So, this means it's a general inability to access any remote site, not
just mirrors.lst.  You'll either have to solve that, or do the
downloading as a separate step / on a separate machine.  It would be
interesting to see if it's both http and ftp that fail, but I suspect it
is.

Brian

--
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/