Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

[Jim Lawson <jrlaim at yahoo dot com>]

> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 15:49:57 +0200
> Message-ID: <AANLkTimXm5iwwIsNJMtTkyd0l2wX8J8EpllYmnVaXSr@mail.gmail.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Intgrity fails?
> From: Sergey Ivanov <icegood1980 at gmail dot com>
> References: <846d84d91001301325u5fe158e1kbaa668a71a64a53b@mail.gmail.com>?????<AANLkTim60bk27UiYpqlsmMVxLj9WM8rUYhamxzCCGRMN@mail.gmail.com>
> I still have this kind of problem. Does anyone know is it should be so?
> More info:
> 1) gcc: C compiler upgrade helper - version 3.4.4.999
> 2) glib: Gnome C function library (1.2 sources) - version 1.2.10-10
> 3) libgnomecanvas2: GNOME canvas widget library (sources) - version 2.26.0-1
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sergey Ivanov <icegood1980 at gmail dot com>
> Date: 2010/1/30
> Subject: Intgrity fails?
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> 
> For about last month i still have troubles after "downloading without
> installing" from ftp.kernel.org:
> "partial view" newer empty - there are still 3 packages:
> 1) gcc: C compiler upgrade helper
> 2) glib: Gnome C function library (1.2 sources) - why actually sources
> if only "bin" checked...
> 3) libgnomecanvas2: GNOME canvas widget library (sources)
> --
> King regards,
> Sergey Ivanov



> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:44:47 -0400
> Message-ID: <AANLkTil1oq5K1YFOeBWkWLYSIs_lmZxchsT53vWfm29a@mail.gmail.com>
> Subject: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors
> From: Gregg Levine <gregg dot drwho8 at gmail dot com>
>
> Hello!I've been trying to update this 1.7.5 release of Cygwin since 11AM
> EDT, based on the multiple announcements of updated packages. Each
> time I select a mirror and select those packages I want to update, the
> process starts.
> 
> It continues up to some particular point, and then I get the
> incomplete download box, and the program wants me to try again. During
> the first phase of this attempted update I was working in an area that
> has had the rumors of a poorly configured proxy server, although the
> information of how this server was configured was never told to me.
> (Customer who has an IT department that sometimes resembles the
> Anarchists Football League complete with clones of each of their
> favorite stars.)
> 
> 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.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg dot drwho8 at gmail dot com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

I suspect these problems may be due to a broken setup.ini file. The setup.ini file on mirrors.kernel.org (as of 6/29/10) seems to indicate that libgnomecanvas2 is a source-only package (it doesn't have an "install:" stanza), but other packages are dependent on it. setup.exe tries to install it to satisfy the dependencies but download_one() exits without success since the packagesource::sitestype iterator has nothing to iterate.

Manually setting it to "Skip" in the "Gnome" category allows the process to complete, albeit with a warning message about the dependency.






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