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Ryan C. Underwood wrote on 2012-06-01: 
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:51:53PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>> 
>> well, have you tryed the cygwin time machine :
>> 
>> http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca
> 
> I must not be understanding how to use this.  For example, if I take
> the URL for 2/13:
> 
> ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2012/02/13/150019
> 
> If I put that URL into Cygwin setup.exe, it complains that it can't
> find setup.bz2.sig.  If I view in my browser, there are no files
> visible.  I guess the file listing could be disabled to avoid mass
> leeching.  But then I just don't know what I'm doing wrong, having not
> used this service before.  I tried a handful of other URLs with the
> same results.  Has anyone else used this recently?
>

See the "Old Update" from 8/5/2008 under
http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca: You need to
specify -X when running Cygwin setup.exe.

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Bryan Thrall
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