Greetings, OwN-3m-All! >> Just specify the mirror by hands. >> If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it.
> That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the > mirrors or would know why one isn't working. But you have control over the script that working your installation, and you can choose a mirror that is likely working. I.e. kernel.org mirrors. > I think a new command-line argument should be added that makes Cygwin setup > pick one of the mirrors it knows is good from the list it downloads. > A command-line argument is the way to go, but a text file with a list > of known good mirrors that could be downloaded and parsed by a script > would also be of great help. Cygwin already checks the status of its > mirros as far as I know. It knows all of them and all of them are good for it. If you know better, then it's up to you to tell it that. > And for some reason, using the mirror of > "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/"; on Windows Server 2008 sometimes > causes it to randomly crash complaining about a runtime c++ error > without any good information output into the setup log. Like I said, > when I run the setup manually, the list of mirrors it pulls does not > contain "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/";. Now, this is a more useful information. But still not quite enough to track the problem. If you are familiar with GDB, you can try debugging the execution and see why it crashes. > I'd much rather rely on Cygwin's list than one hard coded site value > for a mirror which may or may not be up-to-date. So, do that. I see no stopping for it. As Brian pointed out, the list of mirrors is publicly available. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, November 18, 2016 09:06:05 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
