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Re: Download Incomplete. Try again?


On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:52:46AM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote:
>I'm currently trying to find out why a recent copy of a cygwin mirror
>causes the "Download Incomplete.  Try again?" error in setup.exe.  The
>md5 checksums on each file within the download is good (we check them
>against the md5.sum file in each package directory).  But still we get
>the above error.
>
>Is there a way to test if a downloaded cygwin will cause the "Download
>Incomplete.  Try again?" error, except by running setup.exe?
>
>By looking through the mailing list archives, I got the impression that
>this happened when the setup.ini file got out of sync with the
>collection of packages - but Christopher explained that setup.ini only
>gets updated occasionally.

No, I said it was updated "at regular intervals", not "on a continuous
basis".

>And I can confirm that: many of the package versions in setup.ini don't
>match the versions of the packages present, even in stable and
>installable cygwin mirrors.

Actually, yes they do.

>Is that because setup.ini gets updated manually?

It doesn't get updated manually.

cgf

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