From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25626 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2011 18:28:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 25616 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Feb 2011 18:28:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_BJ,TW_IB,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm4-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (HELO nm4-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com) (98.139.213.129) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:28:00 +0000 Received: from [98.139.212.153] by nm4.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Feb 2011 18:27:58 -0000 Received: from [98.139.213.13] by tm10.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Feb 2011 18:27:58 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp113.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Feb 2011 18:27:58 -0000 Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@72.70.43.36 with login) by smtp113.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 01 Feb 2011 10:27:58 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98AAA13C0C9 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 13:27:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 857B03922E9; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 13:27:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:28:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Where to find a reliable provider of CygwinX? Message-ID: <20110201182757.GA3139@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4D48169F.3030607@steensgaard.org> <4D48376C.8070204@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 07:13:51PM +0100, J??rgen Steensgaard wrote: >Thanks for the guidance. But: yes, I refer to a provider on the list of >mirrors found in setup.exe; and yes, I realise the difficulty to ensure >consistency and the urge to put responsibilities on mirror owners. Some >mechanism of mirror authorisation is in my opinion needed. As previously mentioned, we already have that. >Is the original distribution available to common users? Or at least >details of the contents? If not, I have no reference system and cannot >identify derivations? > >Do remember that the impressions left by inconsistencies will stick also >on the original -- which is actually fair. How about if we treat your problem as a support experience rather than a call to redesign all of the mirror handling? You have not provided such basic details as: What, exactly, did you select when installing that would lead you to believe that you should have had X programs installed? What mirror did you use? What error message did you receive when you tried to install xinit but found it unavailable? I have a very hard time believing that you found official cygwin mirrors which did not have the libjpeg62 package but, if you did, we'd certainly like to know which ones are in error. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple