Setup bug --- probably already reported and fixed, of course

[Harold L Hunt II]

Larry,

Seems that you sent this to cygwin-app@cygwin.com (notice no 's') and it 
hasn't yet shown up in the cygwin-apps mailing list, so I am sending it 
for you.

Harold

Larry Hall wrote:

> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
>> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/cygwin-setup-161pct.png
>>
>> I just uploaded XFree86 4.3.0 packages this morning.  Some of the 
>> mirrors have gotten the updated setup.ini and packages already, while 
>> others have not.
>>
>> In setup I have selected three mirrors:
>>
>> archive.progeny.com
>> mirrors.rcn.net
>> planetmirror.com
>>
>>
>> The problem is that at least one of these mirrors has the updated 
>> setup.ini file, as the 4.3.0-1 XFree86 packages are listed and 
>> selected for installation.  However, when setup downloads the packages 
>> it is not associating the actual file it is retrieving with the 
>> setup.ini from that site, thus it thinks that it is retrieving a 3293k 
>> XFree86-bin-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2 file while it is actually retrieving a 
>> roughly 13 MB file.
>>
>> When setup reaches the size of the file that it thinks it is 
>> downloading, the % complete continues to grow above 100% (see link for 
>> screenshot at the top of the email).  When the file is finished, setup 
>> reports that the download was incomplete and asks if I would like to 
>> try again.
>>
>> I am sure that this has already been reported, yelled about, and fixed 
>> or refused.  So, let me point out that I have absolutely no stock in 
>> whether this ever gets fixed, I am not asking anyone to fix it, I am 
>> simply reporting it so that such weirdness is fresh on the minds of 
>> people downloading the new XFree86 packages.
>>
>> Of course, this could be due to some entirely unrelated problem, 
>> probably caused by me, in which case we can all ignore that I ever 
>> said anything.  I will notify the lists in such an event ;)
> 
> 
> 
> Boy that Harold is quite a b*stard.  He comes through here, complaining
> about this and that.  Who needs him!  Oh... is this on the list???
> Eh-hem.  Ah, let me rephrase. ;-)
> 
> Thanks Harold for this report.  Actually, I think this has been reported
> before somewhat recently but there wasn't allot of information about the
> cause.  So I think the link you've suggested between the packages and
> the setup.ini files is quite useful.
> 
> I'm redirecting this discussion to cygwin-apps, since it's the list which
> discusses setup issues.
> 
>