Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

[Lee Rothstein <lee at veritech dot com>]

On 6/24/2010 7:42 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>    
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Gregg Levine
> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:48
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Greg Chicares<>  wrote:
> >      
> > > On 2010-06-22 23:44Z, Gregg Levine wrote:
> > >        
> > > > I've been trying to update this 1.7.5 release of Cygwin since 11AM
> > > > EDT, based on the multiple announcements of updated packages.
> > > >          
> > > That was nine hours ago. Propagation time could be twelve hours if
> > > everything is working as described here:
> > >
> > > http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
> > > | New mirrors should rsync directly from cygwin.com at
> > >        
> > least twice a day.
> >      
> > >        
> > > > Eventually after several repeated tries there, I waited
> > > >          
> > until a few
> >      
> > > > minutes ago here, and decided to try again. This time it happened
> > > > again with the addition of the mirror based at the Open Software
> > > > repository at the Oregon State University.
> > > >          
> > > Try inspecting individual mirrors (see the link above).
> > >        
> > I've had good
> >      
> > > luck with heanet, so I downloaded this file (announced here today):
> > >
> > >
> > >        
> > ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/cygwin/release/webcheck/webcheck-1.10.3-1-src.
> >      
> > > tar.bz2 and it matches the md5sum given--so try that mirror.
> > >        
> > Hello!
> > I've been trying the mirrors I know and a few I've only heard
> > about. I did indeed try that one. Same problem.
> >      
> Please try against http://mirrors.pdinc.us/cygwin
>
>    
> > Is it possible that there are a lot of people at work
> > updating their systems?
> >      
> It is more likely that there is a proxy or whatnot in the way of your download.
>    
Perhaps, you're right about the proxy intervention point, but I too am 
having this
problem, and to my knowledge there is no proxy.


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