From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7809 invoked by alias); 13 May 2018 14:38:26 -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 7797 invoked by uid 89); 13 May 2018 14:38:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=retry, transfer, site X-HELO: mail-it0-f41.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f41.google.com) (209.85.214.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 May 2018 14:38:24 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f41.google.com with SMTP id q72-v6so7699556itc.0 for ; Sun, 13 May 2018 07:38:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=B8QEyyOd5qgzNGPFRo+mEBXimsixTKtBQzfYlCvoVSU=; b=ilrlwuknigv8JnBnDLrkgjQbMqK1aJOIVzxqiQ5G4Fr0u9V7gPjvw/0KWkjBhFchAu hIGO8pj/R9XlNwZ72NxI3am9TAIQP4m2aKHHQaAM4oMugLJWoGCNBNqPfuiQo/glgveR USUHbS2G8DsV6VFpzeo8DWDo2nESpXMUIg4oCs/+NqkMWMxNEXqEz75vnn2TlAK5UL/q jVSEQEHTOrbzGQggpvqtOh59Iw+B7gGGAIut3DCXCGMWjwJjSw9uxTtSlCDCq2+iWh/5 Yy5GOZAAVtAgQ2QJIaB5c8uBLY2jwuS5QSowCV2J3lNRYUhJ7FM1C81kVOWGwb/49LLc h4CA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwecDDQ9AIgzviaxLYLgNAS/QI8uZGUcK4YFjYlkX6mRPoJwmomt 4aYgn+3EUkEr66iXby/CknwUI6S/ieUdD32rrWk= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZonm4hRSFxKBfvuv/gEL7TlDf9QpW0kGh/XKOL/XiqDKuCuaXE0XWbgrNlyDcennCu81m7+arc3MzQg3L2omao= X-Received: by 2002:a24:6b4f:: with SMTP id v76-v6mr5651867itc.59.1526222302734; Sun, 13 May 2018 07:38:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a4f:5b81:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Sun, 13 May 2018 07:38:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201805130957.w4D9vXir031126@telford.daku.org> References: <201805121507.w4CF7VD2018767@telford.daku.org> <7f49a650-4b02-275b-d200-a0c8704a532a@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <201805130957.w4D9vXir031126@telford.daku.org> From: Lee Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 15:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Failure download cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00167.txt.bz2 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 -- 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