setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet
Sam Edge
sam_edgeZZZ@hotmail.com
Sun Apr 28 16:09:00 GMT 2002
Christopher Faylor wrote in <20020428223000.GB13849@redhat.com>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:30:00 -0400:
> If you're on the other end of a slow connection and are apt to be
> disconnected every couple of hours, you will *never* be able to do a
> complete install since the setup.exe will start from scratch every time
> you reconnect. It doesn't matter if you chose "download from internet" or
> not since setup.exe will only consider what's installed when considering
> what to download. That just seems like a bug to me.
Thanks. Even something like the XFree86 "basic" install can take a
long time, let alone trying to install everything in one hit.
Sometimes people forget that there are many still out there on creaky
old dial-up connections.
> If I have this right then even removing download from internet does not
> eliminate this problem.
No, it makes it worse.
> So, I think the right answer to this is the standard one "patches
> gratefully accepted".
I'll look but I'm making no promises! ;-D
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Sam Edge
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