Updating failure -- now success!

[Simon McQueen]

On 05/02/2009 18:39, Sam Kuper wrote:
> 2009/2/5 Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com>:
>> I tried again this morning, a little after 10 a.m. PST, from my
>> usual mirror site cygwin.osuosl.org.  Setup.exe spent a few minutes
>> fetching quite a few files and installing them, then finished
>> without any error messages.  Everything seems to be working fine
>> now.  Yay!  And whew!
> 
> I just tried reinstalling bash via the same mirror, and got the same
> error message (the one I posted about an hour or two ago) about
> cygreadline6.dll not being found :(

If I'm understanding the other posts correctly this issue stems from the 
fact that there are a number of packages in the setup.ini (that is read 
by setup.exe) files on all the mirrors that are missing required:

version:
install:

... lines. vim (grep for '@ vim') is a good example. Before everyone 
pounds this poor mirror to death hoping for a solution by doing fresh 
installs you can see by looking at:

ftp://cygwin.osuosl.org/pub/cygwin/setup.ini

... that the problem is still in effect there.

You can check this file on a mirror by adding '/pub/cygwin/setup.ini' to 
the mirror URL). Presumably there is no point burning the servers 
bandwidth doing futile downloads if you still see the same issue present.

Cheers,
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Simon McQueen                                      sm@prismtech.com
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