From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4236 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2016 04:23:26 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 4207 invoked by uid 89); 18 Nov 2016 04:23:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=OwN-3m-All, own-3m-all, H*RU:64.59.134.13, Hx-spam-relays-external:64.59.134.13 X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:23:15 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([174.0.238.184]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id 7ahkct7fQcWiH7ahlcnySh; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 21:23:13 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=JLBLi4Cb c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:117 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=v82BPIQ6AAAA:8 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=CCpqsmhAAAAA:8 a=XoO83NhWevkSeE2H4ukA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=kdvKi6FvV4v_X1HGDEmx:22 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 a=ul9cdbp4aOFLsgKbc677:22 Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs References: <24218021.20161118061516@yandex.ru> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <4ca55802-27eb-d493-ec11-d1ac4592fd94@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 06:11:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfBYRWzQ9cWTWOytIsRivCwbe5tFdTFNJ+bnfcUpDrk5Na+4xlXKXnKjDgGnjU4omaqLjdk8PRpxTGZRyk/XnSwf8brNQIIxmBC/LVZs1PtTaYnE/q+TF 9/gcnV9TXFgeHgIB0YwvaM97Z1Y+eic78pYJvobEgMBA0X2fyPU3n21ctPu7IxptRq2aPtMLxNgb/w== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 On 2016-11-17 21:06, OwN-3m-All wrote: >> Just specify the mirror by hands. >> If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it. > > That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the > mirrors or would know why one isn't working. I think a new > command-line argument should be added that makes Cygwin setup pick one > of the mirrors it knows is good from the list it downloads. > > A command-line argument is the way to go, but a text file with a list > of known good mirrors that could be downloaded and parsed by a script > would also be of great help. Cygwin already checks the status of its > mirros as far as I know. > > And for some reason, using the mirror of > "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/" on Windows Server 2008 sometimes > causes it to randomly crash complaining about a runtime c++ error > without any good information output into the setup log. Like I said, > when I run the setup manually, the list of mirrors it pulls does not > contain "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/". > > I'd much rather rely on Cygwin's list than one hard coded site value > for a mirror which may or may not be up-to-date. Setup gets its list from: https://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-apps%2Fsetup.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=MIRROR Use the Source Luke! -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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