Re: sourceware.org downtime

2005-02-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Christopher Faylor wrote: If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email telling you that sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com/gcc.gnu.org) was down. As you can see, we are now back up again. We had a hard disk failure which was exacerbated by faulty RAID firmware. Putting a new

RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file (was Re: sourceware.org downtime)

2005-02-07 Thread linda w
I 2nd this request -- wanted to install some other packages but was blocked by the mirrors.txt download -- maybe it could use a cached copy of mirrors.txt to look at other mirror files -- i.e. cache mirrors.txt on the existing mirrors so if cygwin server is down, setup would use existing mirrors

Re: sourceware.org downtime

2005-02-06 Thread Alexey N. Solofnenko
Would not it be great if Cygwin's setup did not just fail if mirrors.lst is unavailable and continued with just last server in the list? I tried to install Cygwin KDE, but setup was failing on a completely unrelated to what I was doing problem. - Alexey. --

Re: sourceware.org downtime

2005-02-06 Thread linda w
Didn't receive any down message here -- just noticed no server nor email-list activity. Dang -- I hate it when disks get screwed up! The bane of developers and users everywhere. Christopher Faylor wrote: If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email telling you that

sourceware.org downtime

2005-02-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email telling you that sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com/gcc.gnu.org) was down. As you can see, we are now back up again. We had a hard disk failure which was exacerbated by faulty RAID firmware. Putting a new disk into the array caused