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RE: How to "bisect" Cygwin?
- From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:28:09 -0500
- Subject: RE: How to "bisect" Cygwin?
- References: <20120531210143.GA11744@localhost.localdomain> <4FC7E7F9.7010903@laposte.net> <20120601143052.GA25227@localhost.localdomain>
Ryan C. Underwood wrote on 2012-06-01:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:51:53PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>>
>> well, have you tryed the cygwin time machine :
>>
>> http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca
>
> I must not be understanding how to use this. For example, if I take
> the URL for 2/13:
>
> ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2012/02/13/150019
>
> If I put that URL into Cygwin setup.exe, it complains that it can't
> find setup.bz2.sig. If I view in my browser, there are no files
> visible. I guess the file listing could be disabled to avoid mass
> leeching. But then I just don't know what I'm doing wrong, having not
> used this service before. I tried a handful of other URLs with the
> same results. Has anyone else used this recently?
>
See the "Old Update" from 8/5/2008 under
http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca: You need to
specify -X when running Cygwin setup.exe.
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Bryan Thrall
Principal Software Engineer
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com
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