From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: OwN-3m-All <own3mall@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 07:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7510004605.20161118091018@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK0ZC5VuH+V31J5JBctEzoB3=sJWurmqcHRw3pBtEO-A1Xf6Uw@mail.gmail.com>
Greetings, OwN-3m-All!
>> 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.
But you have control over the script that working your installation, and you
can choose a mirror that is likely working. I.e. kernel.org mirrors.
> 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.
It knows all of them and all of them are good for it.
If you know better, then it's up to you to tell it that.
> 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/".
Now, this is a more useful information. But still not quite enough to track
the problem.
If you are familiar with GDB, you can try debugging the execution and see why
it crashes.
> 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.
So, do that. I see no stopping for it.
As Brian pointed out, the list of mirrors is publicly available.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, November 18, 2016 09:06:05
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-18 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-18 3:20 OwN-3m-All
2016-11-18 3:41 ` Andrey Repin
2016-11-18 6:04 ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-18 6:11 ` Brian Inglis
2016-11-18 6:18 ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-18 6:20 ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-18 7:32 ` Andrey Repin
2016-11-18 12:59 ` Brian Inglis
2016-11-20 19:19 ` Achim Gratz
2016-11-21 13:40 ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-21 16:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-18 6:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-11-18 7:13 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2016-11-19 0:15 ` Achim Gratz
2016-11-19 2:08 ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-19 13:42 ` OwN-3m-All
2016-11-19 14:41 ` Brian Inglis
2016-11-20 19:01 ` Jon Turney
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