Marco
On 10/6/2012 3:59 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
On 10/6/2012 6:27 PM, Charles wrote:
Charles,
first: do not TOP post
http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html
it is really annoying.
Marco,
I'm not trying to hijack the thread, Please read Brian's October 5, 2012
message. Half way through he raises the corrupt perl man pages issue -
only it occured at the GA Tech site.
if you prefer, you drifted to an unrelated issue:
"corrupt perl man" has no relevance with
"gnome and hicolor exit code 127"
in the first case the package file is damaged, in the second case
the setup post-installation script is not working as expected.
In my original message I requested that it be redirected or that someone
tell me the proper procedure.
I wasn't sure it there may have been a problem that went beyond VA
Tech's site.
Also, I checked the Cygwin "Reporting Problems" web site and found no
mention about contacting mirror site maintainers. Rather the
instructions state "If you can't determine if you've discovered a bug .
. . send a detailed description . . . to the appropriate mailoing list."
Perhaps the "Reporting Problems" needs to be more clear on this.
Charlie
More or less this should belong to the Internet FAQ.
Mirror (for most software) are provided by third party not related
to original developers. They usually mirrors a lot of different
software and the content is not controlled by the original site.
On the page
http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/
you will find their contact information, and also the note :
"We have begun mirroring the Cygwin Project"
So it is likely they have some initial glitch.
Regards
Marco
First - thank you for the bringing the netiquette breach to my attention.
Second - I thought that Brian Wilson raised the corrupted perl_manpages
because there was a possibility that those corrupted pages were somehow
relevant to "gnome and hicolor exit code 127". I therefore inartfully
"reposted" my October 1 message concerning the Virginia Tech mirror that
had the same corrupted perl_manpages problem earlier in the week. I had
absolutely no idea whether "gnome and hicolor" and "corrupted
perl_manpages" were related, but just wanted to point out the VA problem
just in case they are.
Third - I obviously did not search the correct Virginia Tech site. I
found the Computer Science Dept. site, but not the mirror site.
Thank you for your patience and lessons.
Regards,
Charlie
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