Re: Misleading error message in setup

2003-09-18 Thread luke . kendall
On 18 Sep, Robert Collins wrote: > > E.g. we have a local mirror on our intranet: > > http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/ and the user added > > " http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/"; and got an error complaining about not > > being able to find the file /u/mirror/cygwin/setup.tar.bz2. > > Right, and

Re: Misleading error message in setup

2003-09-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 12:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's a small oddity. If you make a mistake in cut and paste when > adding a new download site (easy to accidentally include an invisible > leading or trailing space, for example, in netscape), then instead of > complaining that the URL is w

Misleading error message in setup

2003-09-17 Thread luke . kendall
Here's a small oddity. If you make a mistake in cut and paste when adding a new download site (easy to accidentally include an invisible leading or trailing space, for example, in netscape), then instead of complaining that the URL is wrong, setup complains that it can't find the setuptar.bz2