On 5/13/18, david wrote: > > > > At 09:20 AM 5/12/2018, Brian Inglis wrote: >>On 2018-05-12 09:06, david wrote: >> > I tried to install the full collection from cygwin 64-bit. Yes, I >> know "you >> > really don't want to do that", but nevertheless, I do. >> > Using three different download mirrors, I find a large number of >> > packages >> > have failed. A partial list is given below. In the past, the download >> > has >> > succeeded, and yes, it took hours. >> > Please advise. >> > My most recent download attempt was from >> > ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/cygwin >> > Download failures: (partial list) >>... >> >>You may be more successful if you preload your local package cache using >> e.g. >>wget -m, with some retry (and rate) limiting options, from your >>closest, lowest >>latency, fastest transfer rate, http mirror. >> >>-- > > Brian: > I followed your suggestion, but still had problems. After some more > experiments, I figured out that the file names were too long, and > thus the downloads failed. Unfortunately, this was not diagnosed by > "setup", which, in my opinion, should not allow a download to start > if the file names won't fit in the current Windows. I assume > (perhaps incorrectly), that there is a limit to package name length. > > For example, I used as the directory > d:\arch\archiven\cygwin.2.10.0 > and the selection of the download site made it > > d:\arch\archiven\cygwin.2.10.0\ftp%3a%2f%2flinux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de%2fcygwin%2f > which is getting pretty long.
Which is only 7 characters longer than my download directory: C:\cygwin\packages\http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f and has things like Directory of C:\cygwin\packages\http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f\noarch\release\texlive-collection-fontsrecommended 06/17/2017 06:21 AM 92,157,056 texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-20170520-1.tar.xz Have you tried using a http:// mirror? Lee -- 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
