setup.exe -s site option not working for me

Nellis, Kenneth Kenneth.Nellis@xerox.com
Fri Aug 28 17:29:00 GMT 2015


From: Jon TURNEY 
> 
> It seems you are not using the right URL.  Try
> 
> -s "http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/cygwin/cygwin/"
> 
> This is what the link on https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html points to.

Hey, Jon, thanx! I'm in business. Not sure if/where that was documented.

FWIW, it appears that the web site is adding a semicolon after
the URL in the posting where none was provided (both my and Jon's
postings).

I have not yet realized that this effort has been wasted.
Time will tell. :-)

--Ken Nellis


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