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Subject:	Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Marco Atzeri <> wrote:
> --- Mer 30/6/10, Jim Lawson =A0ha scritto:
>
>> > I still have this kind of problem. Does anyone know is
>> it should be so?
>> > More info:
>> > 1) gcc: C compiler upgrade helper - version 3.4.4.999
>> > 2) glib: Gnome C function library (1.2 sources) -
>> version 1.2.10-10
>> > 3) libgnomecanvas2: GNOME canvas widget library
>> (sources) - version 2.26.0-1
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Sergey Ivanov <icegood1980 at gmail dot
>> com>
>> > Date: 2010/1/30
>> > Subject: Intgrity fails?
>> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> >
>> > For about last month i still have troubles after
>> "downloading without
>> > installing" from ftp.kernel.org:
>> > "partial view" newer empty - there are still 3
>> packages:
>> > 1) gcc: C compiler upgrade helper
>> > 2) glib: Gnome C function library (1.2 sources) - why
>> actually sources
>> > if only "bin" checked...
>> > 3) libgnomecanvas2: GNOME canvas widget library
>> (sources)
>> > --
>> > King regards,
>> > Sergey Ivanov
>>
>>
>>
>> > Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:44:47 -0400
>> > Message-ID: <AANLkTil1oq5K1YFOeBWkWLYSIs_lmZxchsT53vWfm29a AT mail DOT gmail.=
com>
>> > Subject: Incomplete downloads reported across several
>> mirrors
>> > From: Gregg Levine <gregg dot drwho8 at gmail dot
>> com>
>> >
>> > Hello!I've been trying to update this 1.7.5 release of
>> Cygwin since 11AM
>> > EDT, based on the multiple announcements of updated
>> packages. Each
>> > time I select a mirror and select those packages I
>> want to update, the
>> > process starts.
>> >
>> > It continues up to some particular point, and then I
>> get the
>> > incomplete download box, and the program wants me to
>> try again. During
>> > the first phase of this attempted update I was working
>> in an area that
>> > has had the rumors of a poorly configured proxy
>> server, although the
>> > information of how this server was configured was
>> never told to me.
>> > (Customer who has an IT department that sometimes
>> resembles the
>> > Anarchists Football League complete with clones of
>> each of their
>> > favorite stars.)
>> >
>> > Eventually after several repeated tries there, I
>> waited until a few
>> > minutes ago here, and decided to try again. This time
>> it happened
>> > again with the addition of the mirror based at the
>> Open Software
>> > repository at the Oregon State University.
>> > -----
>> > Gregg C Levine gregg dot drwho8 at gmail dot com
>> > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and
>> again."
>>
>> I suspect these problems may be due to a broken setup.ini
>> file. The setup.ini file on mirrors.kernel.org (as of
>> 6/29/10) seems to indicate that libgnomecanvas2 is a
>> source-only package (it doesn't have an "install:" stanza),
>> but other packages are dependent on it. setup.exe tries to
>> install it to satisfy the dependencies but download_one()
>> exits without success since the packagesource::sitestype
>> iterator has nothing to iterate.
>>
>> Manually setting it to "Skip" in the "Gnome" category
>> allows the process to complete, albeit with a warning
>> message about the dependency.
>
> gcc and glib are empty package,
>
> from setup.ini
> install: release/gcc/gcc-3.4.4-999.tar.bz2 46
> install: release/GNOME/glib/glib-1.2.10-10.tar.bz2 46
>
> a 46 byte package is an empty bzipped tar file.
>
> They are there to allow the pull of other packages,
> unfortunately setup forget to tick them and reinstall them
> every time.
>
> libgnomecanvas2 is the source package of
> =A0libgnomecanvas2-devel
> =A0libgnomecanvas2_0
>
> I see no package requiring it, all dependency are for
> libgnomecanvas2_0
>
> Marco
>
>
Hello!
It's been five days so far. And naturally there were some updates
created since then. I decided to see if the problem was still present.
(Whatever it was.) And it is gone. Completely. I was able to update my
installation.

-----
Gregg C Levine gregg DOT drwho8 AT gmail DOT com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

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