mirror problem

mirror problem

[Burlen]

Hi, I recently did a cygwin install, I was having all sorts of issues,x-term 
wasn't installed, nor ssh or svn, which supprised me since the last time 
installed these came by default. After much fiddling I realized that during 
the install process the mirror you chose is important! not all of the mirrors 
seem to have the same cygwin release, which is frustrating since there are so 
many of them in no particular order and no indication what one is getting. 
Good new though after the 4th or 5th try I finally found the right mirror. 
Just wanted to post to let the admins know there is a problem.

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Burlen Loring
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University of New Hampshire
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Phone: 603-862-1140

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Re: mirror problem

[Igor Peshansky]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Burlen wrote:

> Hi, I recently did a cygwin install, I was having all sorts of
> issues,x-term wasn't installed, nor ssh or svn, which supprised me since
> the last time installed these came by default. After much fiddling I
> realized that during the install process the mirror you chose is
> important! not all of the mirrors seem to have the same cygwin release,
> which is frustrating since there are so many of them in no particular
> order and no indication what one is getting. Good new though after the
> 4th or 5th try I finally found the right mirror. Just wanted to post to
> let the admins know there is a problem.

No mirror on the official mirror list distributed via
<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.lst> should be more than, IIRC,
48 hours out of date.  You may have stale mirrors still selected in setup,
however.  I suggest you unselect the mirror you're currently using, and
then add one of the mirrors from <http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html>, which
is the HTML form of the above list.  FWIW, you *can* select more than one
mirror (hold Ctrl while selecting), and setup will show you the latest
packages from all selected mirrors.
HTH,
	Igor
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