On 2023-05-30 06:21, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
On 29/05/2023 23:42, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
On 2023-05-29 16:06, akakima via Cygwin wrote:
Does such a place exist (beside fruitbat) ?
Appears the master and all mirrors have stub setup.ini and nothing else!
Only private mirrors like fruitbat are likely to maintain history.
This answer is wrong is almost every particular.
Good - nothing like a definitely wrong statement in a post to bring out an
illuminating correction in a reply!
I went to a some effort to maintain an accessible archive of the last 32-bit
cygwin (See [1]).
Please don't spread misinformation.
Both the OP and myself, and likely others, missed the alternative:
I just went back and reread it a few times, and finally got the point;
also in the Install FAQ - I just noticed it third time thru, after searching the
page for "sourceware".
[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-November/010810.html
You totally buried the lede with the point:
"The URL for any sourceware mirror[1], followed by cygwin-archive/20221123"
because of too many levels of indirection about sourceware mirrors, lack of
examples and emphases, overshadowed by the following URL and thanks; similarly
in the install FAQ:
"The URL for any sourceware mirror, followed by cygwin-archive/20221123".
I've done this a lot myself, trying to be too terse whilst getting the point
across, losing it in the wording, requiring rephrasing or restructuring, perhaps
along the lines of:
"To install the last cygwin version for x86, run setup using the options
'--allow-unsupported-windows option --site circa_URL' e.g.
> setup-x86 -allow-unsupported-windows --site circa_URL
where circa_URL can be one of:
* any complete sourceware mirror URL, which includes cygwin-archive, followed by
the cygwin-archive mirror directory name and last x86 archive date
cygwin-archive/20221123 e.g.
https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin-archive/20221123/
An incomplete list of sourceware mirrors is available at:
https://sourceware.org/mirrors.html
(Not all sourceware mirrors may carry the cygwin-archive mirror.)
* the Cygwin time machine URL:
http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2022/11/23/063457
Thanks to the Cygwin Time Machine for providing this archive."
In the Install FAQ, perhaps:
"32-bit:
http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2022/11/23/063457
https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin-archive/20221123/ or the URL for
any complete sourceware mirror which includes cygwin-archive, followed by the
mirror directory and last x86 archive date cygwin-archive/20221123"
and/or perhaps include something like the suggested expansion at top below under
the 32-bit note?
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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