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Re: Installation problems (can't retrieve package files)


I have found it unusually difficult to download cygwin updates over dial-up
lately.  The same mirror worked fine over my employer's broad-band
connection, but that's a luxury unavailable to most people in our state.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevin Beattie" <trevin@xmission.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:32 PM
Subject: Installation problems (can't retrieve package files)


> I'm encountering a couple of problems trying to download Cygwin using the
> new setup program.  To begin with, my primary computer runs Linux, not
> Windows, so I can't even run the setup program from there.  I have Windows
> installed on a virtual machine which is connected to my Linux box on a
> private network, and I am able to access the Internet using NAT.
>
> When I run the setup program from the virtual machine, I get the list of
> mirror sites to choose from.  The first site I tried out was
> ftp://planetmirror.com.  This site uses passive ftp, which does not work
> through NAT at all; ftp got stuck waiting for a connection which it would
> never get.
>
> The next site I tried was ftp://ftp.nas.nasa.gov.  This time it got the
> setup.ini file, and I proceeded to go through the package list, selecting
> the components that I wanted to download.  By the time I got finished and
> told the setup program to start downloading everything, I was bombarded by
> a series of failed transfer errors.  According to the log, the setup
> program had kept the ftp connection open the entire time I was sorting
> through the package list, and expected it to still be open by the time I
> was finished!  The ftp server, on the other hand, had long since timed out
> and closed the connection, hence the transfer errors.
>
> I went back to ftp://planetmirror.com a second time because I hadn't
> thought to save the log file as evidence.  This time, it couldn't even
make
> a decent ftp connection; it got stuck in some kind of infinite loop.  I
> can't even imagine why the log is filled up with "ftp > ("'s.
>
> These problems could be fixed in the setup program by A) forcing ftp
> connections to active mode (or providing a user option to choose passive
or
> active transfers), and B) closing the ftp connection after fetching
> setup.ini, and reopening it when it's time to fetch the rest of the files.
>
> Fortunately I was able to download Cygwin through the
> ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu mirror.
>


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> Trevin Beattie          "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
> trevin@xmission.com     for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
>       {:->                                     --unknown
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