setup.exe won't update

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2008-10-08, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

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>> Is the machine that's having problems using caching?
> 
> I don't know.  What sort of caching do you mean?

I meant could it be accessing the web through a caching server.
Sounds like it's not but I thought I'd throw it out there.

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> On the troublesome machine, I changed from "Use IE Settings" to 
> "Direct Connection", which is used by one of the other machines that 
> works.  I also changed the server to ftp://cygwin.osuosl.org, also 
> used that same working machine.  Then I renamed the "packages" 
> directory to get all that history out of the way.  I also saved 
> copies of set.log and setup.log.full, and an "ls -l" of /etc/setup, 
> for whatever good that might do.
> 
> Finally, I ran setup.exe with those changes.  As expected, it listed 
> a whole bunch of packages needing updates, including the grep and 
> vim packages I knew about.  I ran it to completion with no problems 
> other than having to stop my cygrunsrv processes.  It seems to be 
> working fine now.  Now we just have to wait for another update to 
> some package I have and see if setup.exe recognizes the need to 
> download it.

Well, since I'm sure you have all of Chuck Wilson's packages, you
can try again now. ;-)

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