FW: Cygwin start menu / mirrors

FW: Cygwin start menu / mirrors

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From: furriner67@hotmail.com
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Subject: Cygwin start menu / mirrors
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 06:05:10 -0400


Do these updates solve the problem with the start menu?


I usually download updates from; ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/

Today it says;

"One or more mirrors you have selected is/are not on the list of official Cygwin mirrors any more. They may be out of date or missing some packages.

if you experience installation problems consider trying official mirrors only"

when I click Yes, it goes to a download screen for setup.bz2.sig

and it stalls

which server should I be using? surely mirrors.kernel.org should be trustworthy?



 On 19:59, Jon TURNEY wrote: 


 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: 

 *** xorg-server-*1.16.1-1 

 These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. 

 In addition to upstream fixes [1][2], this contains the following cygwin-specific changes since 1.16.0-2: 

 * Also automatically activate the -nolock option if /tmp is on an exFAT filesystem (Reported by 't s') 
 * Log owning HWND when OpenClipboard fails 
 * Log name of format atom when conversion of X clipboard to a format is refused 
 * Also use _NET_WM_NAME for window titles in multiwindow mode 
 * Downgrade some uninformative, always-emitted log output to debug 
 * Check TEMP and TMP directories for accessibility before using for xkbcomp temporary file 
 * Log filename when xkbcomp temporary file cannot be opened 
 * Don't add an extra null character at the end of the text on the Windows clipboard (Thanks to Colin Harrison for patch) 

 x86: 
 6b72d0bdaba1e89e90430a751eef61a9 *xorg-server-1.16.1-1-src.tar.xz 
 7b63f2b0e424292b62ceead452802f80 *xorg-server-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 9ca33a0326e50c5583730c495940903d *xorg-server-common-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 90c76a195c62251322883b31709817da *xorg-server-debuginfo-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 ab4dfe97c97d333bb1cfb30f9ebee8b7 *xorg-server-devel-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 da75032daeaf0e4664ed85c1d333657e *xorg-server-dmx-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 0eb18d9a456f6f37a403febc49080c9c *xorg-server-extra-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 c1478d018c9be5781d85b8ee040398b8 *xwinclip-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 

 x86_64: 
 46e54c368dd214df58810a6c703680b4 *xorg-server-1.16.1-1-src.tar.xz 
 b90e45d736c3f79261518a4c9c9aa9c5 *xorg-server-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 ed7dae27a5430a584b44265996b21a15 *xorg-server-common-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 763fd8a59ac318549bf9f5ee963e593a *xorg-server-debuginfo-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 12a2cc29adc45533bfcda7c33392deaf *xorg-server-devel-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 7dcfedb1a26176345f56c2c3d9058fbe *xorg-server-dmx-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 973da9ca3368b4356dc8e5b89880fc40 *xorg-server-extra-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 
 9e222444d273c7989631343557e878b3 *xwinclip-1.16.1-1.tar.xz 

 [1] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-September/002478.html 
 [2] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-September/002480.html  		 	   		  
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Re: FW: Cygwin start menu / mirrors

[Marco Atzeri]

On 02.10.2014 12:07, t s wrote:
>
> fwd
>
>

> Subject: Cygwin start menu / mirrors
> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 06:05:10 -0400
>
>
> Do these updates solve the problem with the start menu?
>
>
> I usually download updates from; ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
>
> Today it says;
>
> "One or more mirrors you have selected is/are not on the list of official Cygwin mirrors any more. They may be out of date or missing some packages.
>
> if you experience installation problems consider trying official mirrors only"
>
> when I click Yes, it goes to a download screen for setup.bz2.sig
>
> and it stalls
>
> which server should I be using? surely mirrors.kernel.org should be trustworthy?
>

the ftp portion of mirrors.kernel.org was a bit unresponsive in the 
latest days.

Try using the http://mirrors.kernel.org



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Re: FW: Cygwin start menu / mirrors

[Jon TURNEY]

Firstly, please do not send me personal email.

Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html#personal-email, particularly 
the section starting "Shouldn't I just send email to straight to a 
Cygwin developer or package maintainer?"

On 02/10/2014 11:07, t s wrote:
> Do these updates solve the problem with the start menu?

No, they solve the problems that they say they solve.

If you are uncertain, you could always test it yourself.

>   In addition to upstream fixes [1][2], this contains the following cygwin-specific changes since 1.16.0-2:
>
>   * Also automatically activate the -nolock option if /tmp is on an exFAT filesystem (Reported by 't s')
>   * Log owning HWND when OpenClipboard fails
>   * Log name of format atom when conversion of X clipboard to a format is refused
>   * Also use _NET_WM_NAME for window titles in multiwindow mode
>   * Downgrade some uninformative, always-emitted log output to debug
>   * Check TEMP and TMP directories for accessibility before using for xkbcomp temporary file
>   * Log filename when xkbcomp temporary file cannot be opened
>   * Don't add an extra null character at the end of the text on the Windows clipboard (Thanks to Colin Harrison for patch)

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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