On 2 Sep, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:41:27AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >SysAdmin here are coming to object to Cygwin - they say they get only > >slightly fewer support requests for Cygwin than they do for Exchange. > >*Usually* they can solve the problem. They only call me in for hairier > >problems (like this "incomplete download" that was affecting another > >user here, which lead me to my current sad adventure). > > If cygwin isn't meeting your needs, you can return it and we'll > cheerfully refund all of your money.
Point taken. I've put in a large number of hours here, to make Cygwin installs and configuration for us as smooth as it is, because I want more Unix-style automation. (That's just to let you know my position.) I'm enormously impressed by Cygwin, by what everyone has achieved. But it isn't all smooth sailing here yet. It helps a lot being able to ask questions (sometimes silly questions, sorry), on this mailing list and get good help. It is appreciated, thank you all. > >Failing that, is there something we can run on the Unix host to check > >that our mirror is correct? Can we perform the same md5sum check that > >setup does? > > Of course. Just use the md5sum files that are in each directory. Okay, we'll try that first. > >Any advice? Even just a suggestion of an rsync mirror that is > >currently known to be good, and which has moderately good bandwidth? > > There is no way that you can know that a mirror is "good". You may be > downloading information from it while it is in the middle of downloading > from the main site and so you may have a setup.ini that does not reflect > what's on your disk. Some files may be updated while others aren't. True. > However, since you raise the issue of md5sums, it's hard to see how > your mirror could be bad and not have setup.exe complain about an > incorrect md5. Righto. I'll write a script to check our mirror, independent of setup.exe. Then check ours, and pick another mirror site if mirrors.kernel.org has broken. (Though I'm not 100% certain that it's the explanation for my "Subject: Setup problem: incomplete nonexistent package" thread.) Cheers, luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
