hello there,
a few years ago the cygwin team announced a change:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00395.html
start of this week i tried to only update a slightly older install of cygwin
from the existing mirror system using my (renamed) setup-1.7.9-1.exe.
unfortunately it turned out that the mirrors are no longer compatible
with that version and the update attempt using my local setup failed.
then i went to the web looking for an updated version of setup.exe.
i first checked the mirror servers - but no setup.exe there - nowhere!
anyone was only pointing to cygwin.com with a certain path for the
download of the quite needed current version of setup.exe.
what shall i tell you? the whole domain was not reachable
and i could not get ayn response from any web server out there.
hey, i searched the web and its really not possible to get such a file
other than from the original location - server down - cygwin install impossible.
(okay, i then found this location that did the job for me:
ftp://ftp.ges.redhat.com/private/releng/cygwin-1.8/
and i used the file "rhsetup.exe" from this repository.
i stored the file to my machine and then name it: rhsetup-2.774.exe)
some two days later the cygwin site was up again
but whats left over is the really uncomfortable feeling
that the dis-appearance of a single server on the web
is able to kill a whole FS/OS project - if the people of the
project have decided to not share their installers on the mirrors.
you rellly got what i was telling you? tons of mirrored data
were rendered useless to the world due to the fact that
a single initial or key element was missing from the web.
regards, Alex.
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