Re: Cygwin setup doesn't resume failed downloads

[peterl2002se <peterl2002se at yahoo dot se>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, peterl2002se wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hello,
> > When trying to download the packages from, in my case, ftp.sunet.se I
> > get often a ftp connection error. It could be that ftp.sunet.se is
> > limited on the number of concurrently conneced anonmous ftp users.
> >
> > The progress downloads several packages, then says connecting and stops.
> > At that time I can connect with a parallel ftp client so it doesn't look
> > like it is retrying.
> >
> > After a long time I get back to mirror select dialog. Selecting same
> > mirror doesn't work, but any other works.
> >
> > Setup 2.510.2.2 (Install from Internet)
> >    
>
> At a guess, you're seeing the problem I addressed in CVS recently.  It's
> not that the setup you're using doesn't reconnect after an error, it's
> that it won't reconnect to a timed-out FTP server, period.
>
> Please try the setup snapshot at
> <http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/cygwin/setup-2.513-1-alpha.exe>, and post
> back with results.
> HTH,
> 	Igor
>  
I tried the new setup above with the same result. Maybe the problem is 
specific to the ftp.sunet.se mirror, downloading stopped at package: 
libintl3-0.14.1-1.tar.bz2. When choosing ftp.uni-erlangen.de setup 
resumed download.

Regards
/Peter Liedholm

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