RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file (was Re: sourceware.org downtime)

2005-02-07 Thread linda w
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

Re: sourceware.org downtime

2005-02-06 Thread linda w
Didn't receive any "down" message here -- just noticed no server nor email-list activity. Dang -- I hate it when disks get screwed up! The bane of developers and users everywhere. Christopher Faylor wrote: If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email telling you that sourcew

Re: sourceware.org downtime

2005-02-06 Thread Glenn Fowler
Is it reasonable to assume that messages posted last week but not in the current archives are lost and should be reposted? thanks -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

sourceware.org downtime

2005-02-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email telling you that sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com/gcc.gnu.org) was down. As you can see, we are now back up again. We had a hard disk failure which was exacerbated by faulty RAID firmware. Putting a new disk into the array caused m