From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24481 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2006 17:21:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 24466 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jun 2006 17:21:01 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:20:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5DHKqBR011978; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:23:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Burlen cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mirror problem In-Reply-To: <200606131310.05682.burlen@apollo.sr.unh.edu> Message-ID: References: <200606131310.05682.burlen@apollo.sr.unh.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-06/txt/msg00284.txt.bz2 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 No mirror on the official mirror list distributed via should be more than, IIRC, 48 hours out of date.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 , 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/