From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7471 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2017 17:57:15 -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 6515 invoked by uid 89); 28 Mar 2017 17:57:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_COUK,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*f:sk:b702042, H*i:sk:b702042, H*M:tiscali, H*MI:sk:b702042 X-HELO: smtp-d-4.tiscali.co.uk Received: from smtp-d-4.tiscali.co.uk (HELO smtp-d-4.tiscali.co.uk) (62.24.229.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:57:12 +0000 Received: from [10.7.7.23] ([88.150.206.166]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id svMdcBIuMfn7DsvMkcjlyw; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:57:11 +0100 Subject: Re: Overlay repo on github To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Cc: igagis@gmail.com Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: David Stacey Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:04:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfCIgh40PWZ547rKIYr1Riaay2yK/nSPIwvJm7MV6dJLJdRWBrPLYkJCgm3WhAoMpc8SZ/EM3Y0Ea+mBfECvLkBs8QEMP7v3qHVKRKHcpMup8ZLZGAbRk G/6XMtyB0OZGyevkyXaZqiVFScgGagzZZCPoi74qCv6ICqgr+KvSi/kNeh948HenaZ+xi48C+itzz865OW/wj2+ZxQWCTVLaLGM= X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-03/txt/msg00375.txt.bz2 On 28/03/17 18:21, Ivan Gagis wrote: > I'm trying to setup a cygwin overlay repo right on github, here: > > https://github.com/igagis/cygwin-repo > > But when I pass the repo URL to setup utility as follows: > > http://github.com/igagis/cygwin-repo/raw/master/ > > it does not work. Setup utility tries to download setup.xz and just > stalls with 0% progress bar, and the only option is to Cancel the setup. > > > So, the question is what is wrong? Could there be some redirections > happening on github which the setup program does not support? > > It looks like when using this 'raw content' URLs to github it works as > usual file tree, shouldn't it work? This is because Cygwin's setup supports http but not https. Dave. -- 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