Well, I maintain an internal mirror for my company, and I use a custom python script to parse our custom setup.ini and fetch the needed packages. But, I never used sources.redhat.com.
"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the > cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com. The result seemed > to be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files > directly and (somehow) used tar to extract files rather than running > setup.exe. > > So, that experiment was a bad idea. I turned off access again. Yet, I > still have the feeling that many people are downloading packages > directly (from mirrors I suppose) and then we get to experience the > maddening "I downloaded foo and it gives me an error about missing bar. > What in the world could possibly be the problem????" > > Can anyone offer any explanation about this? Or maybe convince me that > I'm wrong in noticing this trend? I suppose that it is possible that > we are now hitting a newer stupider brand of user who just can't be > bothered to read the cygwin web site and click on a link to download > but I'm wondering if there is another explanation. Maybe there is > a popular web page out there with wrong advice or something... > > cgf > -- > Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. > Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
