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From: Sam Edge <sam_edgeZZZ@hotmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 05:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3rbqcu4ljnc0boa3p0vsk6givgp15cue3r@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5F52@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>

Robert Collins wrote in
<FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5F52@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:47:16 +1000:

> The *redownloading* is a bug, and will get fixed. 

Okay. Good.

> The 'I want to mirror
> > non-installed packages by using download' is not.

Actually, the re-download fix would go 90% of the way to doing this
anyway, since you could just reselect everything you want again and
again and it'd eventually have the lot even on a slow link.

> A 'normal' install - download and install - works fine, no problems.

Read my and Christopher Faylor's posts especially
<20020429050712.GC27298@redhat.com> where we explain where for some
people download and install with the current version of setup.exe does
not work fine.

Even a single package such as the XFree86-fnts one can be a trial on
dial-up connections, taking the best part of an hour. A clean minimum
install of the Cygwin environment takes about the same, I think. 

A model that didn't allow multiple download sessions before a single
install one would effectively bar many dial-up users from installing
Cygwin and/or XFree86 at all. The selective mirroring and local FTP
server route would simply be too much hassle for many just to evaluate
something.

> A reference for this is
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-11/msg00271.html.

Ah. Exactly. :-)

So is it worth my while looking at the code with an eye to providing a
patch for this (specifically the checkbox option) or is it work in
progress elsewhere?

-- 
Sam Edge

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-29 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-29  2:26 Robert Collins
2002-04-29  5:42 ` Sam Edge [this message]
2002-04-29  5:49   ` Robert Collins
2002-04-29  7:46     ` Sam Edge
2002-04-30  1:58       ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2002-04-29  8:27     ` Christopher Faylor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-29  2:35 Robert Collins
2002-04-28 22:34 Alec Mihailovs
2002-04-28 23:51 ` Charles Wilson
2002-04-28 10:15 Robert Collins
2002-04-28  8:14 Robert Collins
2002-04-28  9:56 ` Kurt Roeckx
2002-04-28  4:47 Robert Collins
2002-04-28  8:08 ` Sam Edge
2002-04-28 15:04 ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2002-04-28 15:09   ` Sam Edge
2002-04-28 15:30     ` Charles Wilson
2002-04-28 16:05       ` Christopher Faylor
2002-04-28 16:09         ` Sam Edge
2002-04-28 19:08         ` Michael A Chase
2002-04-29  0:06           ` Christopher Faylor
2002-04-29  0:57             ` Cliff Hones
2002-04-29  4:58               ` Robert Collins
2002-04-28 16:05       ` Sam Edge
2002-04-29  4:07 ` Max Bowsher
2002-04-29  4:24   ` Robert Collins
2002-04-28  3:17 Daniele Mezzetti
2002-04-28  4:31 ` Sam Edge
2002-04-26  8:34 Robert Collins
2002-04-26  7:10 Robert Collins
2002-04-26  7:57 ` Alexei Lioubimov
2002-04-25  8:55 Alexei Lioubimov
2002-04-25 11:00 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-04-26  7:03   ` Alexei Lioubimov

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