From: Lee <ler762@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Failure download cygwin
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 15:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD8GWstbggC+D1jbTR__EYLa6-EAP8xFTbDO9dJtNB_VFRQ-tQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201805130957.w4D9vXir031126@telford.daku.org>
On 5/13/18, david wrote:
>
>
>
> At 09:20 AM 5/12/2018, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>On 2018-05-12 09:06, david wrote:
>> > I tried to install the full collection from cygwin 64-bit. Yes, I
>> know "you
>> > really don't want to do that", but nevertheless, I do.
>> > Using three different download mirrors, I find a large number of
>> > packages
>> > have failed. A partial list is given below. In the past, the download
>> > has
>> > succeeded, and yes, it took hours.
>> > Please advise.
>> > My most recent download attempt was from
>> > ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/cygwin
>> > Download failures: (partial list)
>>...
>>
>>You may be more successful if you preload your local package cache using
>> e.g.
>>wget -m, with some retry (and rate) limiting options, from your
>>closest, lowest
>>latency, fastest transfer rate, http mirror.
>>
>>--
>
> Brian:
> I followed your suggestion, but still had problems. After some more
> experiments, I figured out that the file names were too long, and
> thus the downloads failed. Unfortunately, this was not diagnosed by
> "setup", which, in my opinion, should not allow a download to start
> if the file names won't fit in the current Windows. I assume
> (perhaps incorrectly), that there is a limit to package name length.
>
> For example, I used as the directory
> d:\arch\archiven\cygwin.2.10.0
> and the selection of the download site made it
>
> d:\arch\archiven\cygwin.2.10.0\ftp%3a%2f%2flinux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de%2fcygwin%2f
> which is getting pretty long.
Which is only 7 characters longer than my download directory:
C:\cygwin\packages\http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f
and has things like
Directory of C:\cygwin\packages\http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f\noarch\release\texlive-collection-fontsrecommended
06/17/2017 06:21 AM 92,157,056
texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-20170520-1.tar.xz
Have you tried using a http:// mirror?
Lee
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-13 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-12 16:20 david
2018-05-12 17:15 ` Brian Inglis
2018-05-13 14:37 ` david
2018-05-13 15:46 ` Lee [this message]
2018-05-13 16:01 ` Brian Inglis
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