Setup bug --- probably already reported and fixed, of course

[Harold L Hunt II]

http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/cygwin-setup-161pct.png

I just uploaded XFree86 4.3.0 packages this morning.  Some of the 
mirrors have gotten the updated setup.ini and packages already, while 
others have not.

In setup I have selected three mirrors:

archive.progeny.com
mirrors.rcn.net
planetmirror.com


The problem is that at least one of these mirrors has the updated 
setup.ini file, as the 4.3.0-1 XFree86 packages are listed and selected 
for installation.  However, when setup downloads the packages it is not 
associating the actual file it is retrieving with the setup.ini from 
that site, thus it thinks that it is retrieving a 3293k 
XFree86-bin-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2 file while it is actually retrieving a 
roughly 13 MB file.

When setup reaches the size of the file that it thinks it is 
downloading, the % complete continues to grow above 100% (see link for 
screenshot at the top of the email).  When the file is finished, setup 
reports that the download was incomplete and asks if I would like to try 
again.

I am sure that this has already been reported, yelled about, and fixed 
or refused.  So, let me point out that I have absolutely no stock in 
whether this ever gets fixed, I am not asking anyone to fix it, I am 
simply reporting it so that such weirdness is fresh on the minds of 
people downloading the new XFree86 packages.

Of course, this could be due to some entirely unrelated problem, 
probably caused by me, in which case we can all ignore that I ever said 
anything.  I will notify the lists in such an event ;)


Harold


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