Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

[Lee Rothstein]

On 6/24/2010 7:42 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>    
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
>> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Gregg Levine
>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:48
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Greg Chicares<>  wrote:
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>>> On 2010-06-22 23:44Z, Gregg Levine wrote:
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>>>> I've been trying to update this 1.7.5 release of Cygwin since 11AM
>>>> EDT, based on the multiple announcements of updated packages.
>>>>          
>>> That was nine hours ago. Propagation time could be twelve hours if
>>> everything is working as described here:
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
>>> | New mirrors should rsync directly from cygwin.com at
>>>        
>> least twice a day.
>>      
>>>        
>>>> Eventually after several repeated tries there, I waited
>>>>          
>> until a few
>>      
>>>> minutes ago here, and decided to try again. This time it happened
>>>> again with the addition of the mirror based at the Open Software
>>>> repository at the Oregon State University.
>>>>          
>>> Try inspecting individual mirrors (see the link above).
>>>        
>> I've had good
>>      
>>> luck with heanet, so I downloaded this file (announced here today):
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/cygwin/release/webcheck/webcheck-1.10.3-1-src.
>>      
>>> tar.bz2 and it matches the md5sum given--so try that mirror.
>>>        
>> Hello!
>> I've been trying the mirrors I know and a few I've only heard
>> about. I did indeed try that one. Same problem.
>>      
> Please try against http://mirrors.pdinc.us/cygwin
>
>    
>> Is it possible that there are a lot of people at work
>> updating their systems?
>>      
> It is more likely that there is a proxy or whatnot in the way of your download.
>    
Perhaps, you're right about the proxy intervention point, but I too am 
having this
problem, and to my knowledge there is no proxy.


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