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Re: Setup bug


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> The >100% in the title is obviously a bug.
Which is why I mailed :)

> As for the incomplete download, I just checked the MD5 sums, and they
> seem correct, both in setup.ini and in md5.sum.  However, the timestamps
> on the files (on archive.progeny.com, at least) show that there was a 14
> minute interval between the uploads of XFree86-fscl-4.2.0-3.tar.bz2 and
> md5.sum, and setup.ini was only updated an hour after the tarball:
> 
> ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/release/XFree86/XFree86-fscl/
>     XFree86-fscl-4.2.0-3.tar.bz2               1960 Kb    Wed Jul 09 01:40:00 2003
>     md5.sum                                     234 bytes Wed Jul 09 01:54:00 2003
> ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/
>     setup.ini                                   184 Kb    Wed Jul 09 02:40:00 2003 Configuration Settings
> 
> I'm assuming the times above are in PST, which would place your message
> within the first 14-minute interval.  Someone on the cygwin-xfree list
> complained about a download problem with the same package, about an hour
> after you (which puts the time he tried downloading it in the same
> timeslot).  At a guess, it was a download/update race condition, and you
> got unlucky.
Ceci explique cela ;) It does indeed work now, so the bug no longer 
surfaces.

Thanx

rlc




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