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Re: Setup bug
- From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald at landheer dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:26:47 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Setup bug
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> The >100% in the title is obviously a bug.
Which is why I mailed :)
> As for the incomplete download, I just checked the MD5 sums, and they
> seem correct, both in setup.ini and in md5.sum. However, the timestamps
> on the files (on archive.progeny.com, at least) show that there was a 14
> minute interval between the uploads of XFree86-fscl-4.2.0-3.tar.bz2 and
> md5.sum, and setup.ini was only updated an hour after the tarball:
>
> ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/release/XFree86/XFree86-fscl/
> XFree86-fscl-4.2.0-3.tar.bz2 1960 Kb Wed Jul 09 01:40:00 2003
> md5.sum 234 bytes Wed Jul 09 01:54:00 2003
> ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/
> setup.ini 184 Kb Wed Jul 09 02:40:00 2003 Configuration Settings
>
> I'm assuming the times above are in PST, which would place your message
> within the first 14-minute interval. Someone on the cygwin-xfree list
> complained about a download problem with the same package, about an hour
> after you (which puts the time he tried downloading it in the same
> timeslot). At a guess, it was a download/update race condition, and you
> got unlucky.
Ceci explique cela ;) It does indeed work now, so the bug no longer
surfaces.
Thanx
rlc