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Re: Misleading error message in setup
- From: luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au
- To: Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:09:38 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Misleading error message in setup
On 18 Sep, Robert Collins wrote:
> > E.g. we have a local mirror on our intranet:
> > http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/ and the user added
> > " http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/"; and got an error complaining about not
> > being able to find the file /u/mirror/cygwin/setup.tar.bz2.
>
> Right, and it couldn't. The error is accurate, as far as it goes.
Well, yes - it's telling an approximation of the truth, sure. But I
would have thought it should be reporting that it can't locate the
starting URL, rather than a specific file.
The reason it confuses is that when you look manually, using a browser
or something, you can see that the file is there, check permissions
okay, etc.
luke
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