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RE: new setup.exe crashes with kde's setup.ini
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:12:19 +0200
- Subject: RE: new setup.exe crashes with kde's setup.ini
> [Per instructions at http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde2.php]
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:02:47PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > AFAICT http://prdownloads.sf.net/kde-cygwin/setup.ini is not a valid
> > setup.ini.
> >
> > It's a redirect page of some sort.
>
> Yes. They've been screwed by the download mirror system Sourceforge
> introduced on 2002-05-03. As I wrote when I changed prc-tools's
> .htaccess to deal with this:
>
> Update the redirect to cope with Sourceforge's new download
> mirror system. You'd think they could have implemented that
> without breaking all the old URLs, but no...
>
> They need to tell people to use
>
> http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kde-cygwin/setup.ini
>
> (or similar) instead.
>
Thanks for this hint, I will update the website.
> That works fine in 2.249.2.4 but has a parse error in the 2.253
> snapshot, perhaps because of the blank line at the end.
>
> (Hey, nice parse error message! That'll help if the bizarre parse error
> prc-tools's setup.ini was intermittently getting recurs.)
>
> John
>