Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup

Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup

[Robert Collins]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>; <cygwn@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup


> Robert Collins wrote:
> >
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> > To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> > Cc: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>; <cygwn@cygwin.com>
> > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:32 PM
> > Subject: Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup
> >
> > > I've used the redownload feature to reget a corrupted downloaded
file.
> > > Not often, but it's worth saving the functionality.
> >
> > What sort of corruption? Too short, garbage data?
> >
>
> I've never analyzed the corruption, it's fix was to download again.

What were the symptoms that clued you into the corruption?

Rob


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Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:48:59PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> I've never analyzed the corruption, it's fix was to download again.
>
>What were the symptoms that clued you into the corruption?

Yeah, I think if you are aware that there is corruption in one file, you
can delete that file and run setup.exe again.  I don't see any need for
a redownload, especially if it is complicating setup.exe now.

This is different than "reinstall" where you'd have to know which of hundreds
of files are necessary to delete to cause setup.exe to reinstall for you.

cgf

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RE: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

> Ok, well we had 3 'I use it's', and 2 'I don't', and something thousand
> 'I don't or I do but am too apathetic to reply :]'.
>
> So it's gone. If you have a corrupt file it will be detected during
> download and/or before installation.

Well, I guess it's too late to vote, but I really didn't like it. I
never "used" it but as I'm often on dialup I went out of my way to
avoid it.


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RE: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup

[Robert Collins]

Ok, well we had 3 'I use it's', and 2 'I don't', and something thousand
'I don't or I do but am too apathetic to reply :]'.

So it's gone. If you have a corrupt file it will be detected during
download and/or before installation.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins 
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:15 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Cc: cygwn@cygwin.com
> Subject: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup
> 
> 
> Ok. Time for a straw poll.
> 
> Please write back (to me or the list, your choice) whether 
> you use the DELIBERATE 'download again' functionality of 
> setup.exe or not. And if so, how often and for what purpose.
> 
> This is to determine if certain functionality that -in 
> essence- causes the 'accidental' redownloading of files in 
> 'download only' mode.
> 
> Both positive and negative answers are useful, but in the 
> absence of any significant number of answers, I will assume 
> that no-one uses the functionality.
> 
> Unless there is a real user need for it, the functionality 
> will be removed in the next setup.exe release.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 

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