Cygwin 1.7.14-2 setup.exe v2.772 broken?

Ken kstmp001@comcast.net
Sat Apr 28 18:34:00 GMT 2012


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:06:21PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr 28 13:02, Ken wrote:
>>> marco atzeri wrote:
>>>> BLODA is still a possibility, I have Symantec installed; or there
>>>> is subtle bug handling the missing files on the website
>>>>
>>>> Marco
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Marco,
>>>
>>>    Nice to see that you can reproduce the problem!  I neglected to
>>> mention that this seems to occur immediately after the initial
>>> setup.ini download (even to a fresh, non-cached, local folder), but
>>> it would seem that you have reproduced what I am experiencing.  As I
>>> mentioned, the download operations work fine with the previous
>>> version of setup.exe (from 1.7.13); which is why I question whether
>>> or not something is slightly awry in the new version.
>> There's no change between 2.769 and 2.772 which would explain any change
>> in handling the .ini file.
> Yeah, ditto, but...
>
>> I installed 2.772 on my systems as soon as it was available and I don't
>> see any such issue using my local mirror.  Did you try another mirror?

Yes, as I mentioned in my initial post, I tried a few 
different mirrors with the same result.

> I can duplicate this.  I'll try to fix it today.
>
> cgf
>
>
Excellent!  I look forward to the fix. :-)

Thank you!
Ken


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