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Re: setup.exe problem


On Feb  9 13:58, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > I see the files on the mirrors, but the new version isn't showing up in
> > setup.exe.  Could it be because the old version, 2.6.10-2, hasn't been
> > removed?  Not sure.  2.6.10-2 is obsolete so it should probably be removed
> > anyway.  Thanks, Andrew.
> 
> I am very confused about what's happening with setup.exe.
> 
> At http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/, if I look in setup.ini or
> setup.bz2, they both show versions 3.5.9-1 and 3.5.1-1 of lftp.  But when I
> run setup, it somehow finds an older version, that only lists versions
> 3.5.1-1 and 2.6.10-2 of lftp.
> 
> I have no idea where setup is getting that old file.  It's not on the mirror
> any more.  setup says it's fetching
> http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/setup.bz2, but it's getting an old
> version of that file.  I've removed all copies of setup.ini from my download
> directory.  setup recreates it, still the old version.
> 
> OK, so maybe I'm behind an invisible proxy cache server that's serving stale
> content.  But wget http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/setup.ini also gets
> the new file.  

I checked the setup.ini file on cygwin.com, it shows 3.5.9-1 and
3.5.1-1.  Just use another mirror.


Corinna

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