Downloading Empty setup.ini File from Mirrors

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sun Aug 16 14:45:00 GMT 2015


On 16/08/2015 15:33, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 16/08/2015 16:19, Emily Jackson wrote:
>> When I try to update cygwin I get an empty setup.ini file and the only
>> packages that appear are the ones I already have installed--they are all
>> listed under "Miscellaneous". I get this with every mirror I try and on
>> two different PCs, both running Windows 10. This is from setup.log:
>>
[...]
>
> this one seems fine:
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
>
> while
> http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com
>
> has crippled setup.ini

It seems that sourceware.org had a hiccup last night (disk full?), which 
caused an empty setup.ini to be generated

This has been resolved and a correct setup.ini generated, but that needs 
to propagate to all mirrors.


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