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Re: setup*.exe should abort upon download incomplete?
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:56:02 -0600
- Subject: Re: setup*.exe should abort upon download incomplete?
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On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 07:43 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 2/6/2015 2:59 AM, Kal Sze wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just ran setup-x86_64.exe, marked some packages for update, and then
> > it asked me "Download incomplete. Try again?" while it tried to
> > download one of the packages. I clicked "No" and setup went ahead and
> > tried to install them anyway, telling me some kind of "null" error
> > when it tried to unzip one of the missing packages. And then it didn't
> > tell me what package failed to install. I fired up setup-x86_64.exe
> > again and I don't see any updatable packages anymore.
> >
> > This looks like a bug.
>
> I have the impression that some of the servers have incomplete mirrors.
> I saw the same fault and I was forced to change several time
> to catch a working mirror.
There have been a lot of uploads over the last 24 hours, and the mirrors
haven't caught up yet.
Yaakov
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