Diagnosis of setup crash (was: Re: Re[3]: cygwin download incomplete - try again - loop?)

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Pavel Tsekov
> Sent: Monday, 10 June 2002 8:50 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re[2]: Diagnosis of setup crash (was: Re: Re[3]: 
> cygwin download incomplete - try again - loop?)
> 
> 
> MB> Hang on! Won't that mean that setup.ini files in the root 
> dir of the package
> MB> cache are ignored?
> 
> On second thought.. it seems you're right :)
> 
> 
> Btw, Robert, are the mirrors required to be relative paths ?

Yes. But :}.

A valid mirror would also be a file:// url once your URL class gets in
and we make http and ftp an io_stream. We can -sensibly- special case
the file:// mirrors to never cache and always retrieve (but assume that
they will have low latency.)

Rob


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