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

[Larry Hall]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> 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 ;)


Boy that Harold is quite a b*stard.  He comes through here, complaining
about this and that.  Who needs him!  Oh... is this on the list???
Eh-hem.  Ah, let me rephrase. ;-)

Thanks Harold for this report.  Actually, I think this has been reported
before somewhat recently but there wasn't allot of information about the
cause.  So I think the link you've suggested between the packages and
the setup.ini files is quite useful.

I'm redirecting this discussion to cygwin-apps, since it's the list which
discusses setup issues.


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