On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Greetings, Aleksey Midenkov! > >>>> Cygwin setup process my turn to endless retry-error on bad internet >>>> channels, because: >>> >>>> 1. setup doesn't know how to retry download (why it fails to download >>>> anyway?); >>> >>> Because your internet is bad? > >> On the second thought I believe that the problem is with setup.exe >> itself. Because: > >> a) I tried different mirrors. It always fails in somewhere between >> 80-90% (of total progress). >> b) I never noticed any problems with downloading files except with >> Cygwin. Gigabyte-sized files via http are downloading without fail. > > If you get consistent results from different mirrors (and since you're the > only person reporting it), my second thought is that it is a local issue. > Overly zealous antivirus/firewall coming to mind.
I remember this was also happening long time ago (about 10 years or more) in completely different environment of course. Anyway, local problem with *Cygwin-only* means problem with Cygwin. I rarely use Cygwin and when I use it, I always stumble upon this. Maybe there is another reason of why you don't know of other complaints. > >>>> 2. setup doesn't use cache of previously downloaded files and always >>>> redownload all packages from the beginning. >>> >>> It do use cache, if checksum is correct. > >> Hmmm, on setup.ini doc says: > >> install: filename size-in-bytes MD5 sum > > As David pointed out already, MD5 hash proven weak and is no longer used in > sensitive environments. I don't need to know who the David is and what he pointed out. But what does this mean in core, the documentation is wrong and checksum is done with different algorithm? > > > -- > With best regards, > Andrey Repin > Monday, October 26, 2015 14:45:39 > > Sorry for my terrible english... > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
