Yuk, top-posting. Reformatted. On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, linda w wrote:
> Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote: > > > Would not it be great if Cygwin's setup did not just fail if > > mirrors.lst is unavailable and continued with just last server in the > > list? I tried to install Cygwin KDE, but setup was failing on a > > completely unrelated to what I was doing problem. > > I 2nd this request -- wanted to install some other packages but was > blocked by the mirrors.txt download -- maybe it could use a cached copy > of mirrors.txt to look at other mirror files -- i.e. cache mirrors.txt > on the existing mirrors so if cygwin server is down, setup would use > existing mirrors to avoid a single point of failure -- but still check > mirrors.txt on cygwin.com if it was up. The best way to second such requests is with a patch. Remember, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/
