Hello! Here some comments about setup.exe
Problem 1. I have notice that setup fails sometimes in some mirrors (I use the downloading mode). I have found that some mirrors have the following policy: If the connection is slow they close the connection after some number of bytes is downloaded. If this is intentional or if it is a side effect of time-out I don't know. One of these is mirrors.rcn.net. See what happens in a machine that has a slow connection: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /ftp $wget -c http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin/release /XFree86/lesstif/lesstif-0.93.91-4.tar.bz2 --05:10:30-- http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin/release/XFree86/lesst if/lesstif-0.93.91-4.tar.bz2 => `lesstif-0.93.91-4.tar.bz2' Resolving mirrors.rcn.net... 207.172.2.141 Connecting to mirrors.rcn.net[207.172.2.141]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,956,055 [application/x-tar] 51% [=================> ] 1,003,312 1.28K/s ETA 26:04 05:38:40 (610.75 B/s) - Connection closed at byte 1003312. Retrying. --05:38:41-- http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin/release/XFree86/lesst if/lesstif-0.93.91-4.tar.bz2 (try: 2) => `lesstif-0.93.91-4.tar.bz2' Connecting to mirrors.rcn.net[207.172.2.141]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content Length: 1,956,055 (952,743 to go) [application/x-tar] 100%[++++++++++++++++++==================>] 1,956,055 1.23K/s ETA 00:00 05:52:01 (1.17 KB/s) - `lesstif-0.93.91-4.tar.bz2' saved [1956055/1956055] If the file is say 5MB long, the wget connection is stopped at 1MB, 2MB, 3MB, and 4MB. The same thing happens using ftp instead of http. So,if you have a slow connection, it is impossible to fetch from mirrors.rcn.net a file bigger than 1MB with a normal ftp or with setup. At least some times setup does not stop, but it continues downloading the next package. Result: All the packages bigger than 1MB are mysteriously lost. I have tried mirrors.rnc.net with a fast connection and there is not such problem. I think that you should: a) At least put on guard about the existence this problem. b) Modify setup in order be able to reassume the downloading. Or at least, give the option, instead of downloading directly, of outputting a command file to be used with wget. Problem 2. When setup discovers, at the end, that the downloading is incomplete it asks if one wants to try again. If one replies yes it starts all the process from the begining, downloading again what has been previously and successfully fetched. I think that setup should not download again what is already in the directory, unless it is explicitly chosen. I hope these comments could be useful. Rodrigo Medina -- 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/
