Re: single point of failure: server machine for setup.exe

2013-03-23 Thread Alexander Stohr
Christopher Faylor wrote: The mirrors list used by setup.exe comes from cygwin.com. In an update scenario i have a cache mirrors list and i have the chance to find tons of other mirrors via what ever sort of search engine the web does offer. The second option is still possible for a first time

single point of failure: server machine for setup.exe

2013-03-22 Thread Alexander Stohr
hello there, a few years ago the cygwin team announced a change: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00395.html start of this week i tried to only update a slightly older install of cygwin from the existing mirror system using my (renamed) setup-1.7.9-1.exe. unfortunately it turned ou