[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-3413249 ] mingw-get-inst-20110802.exe: as.exe and ld.exe are missing

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Bugs item #3413249, was opened at 2011-09-23 03:08
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Category: MinGW Installer
Group: None
Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 1
Private: No
Submitted By: Robert Hartmann (ifrh)
>Assigned to: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Summary: mingw-get-inst-20110802.exe: as.exe and ld.exe are missing

Initial Comment:
Hi there, today I have downloaded mingw-get-inst-20110802.exe
I have to do the installation behinde a proxy. (I had to set some enviroment variables, that is ok for me) 

My PC at work is a Windows XP professional Version 2002 SP3
I have choosen to install as System-Administrator (into C:\MinGW) ,
I selected the Option "Use pre-packaged repository catalogues      20110802".
After install gcc, g++ and objc I tested as normal user:
=======
gcc --version:
gcc (GCC) 4.5.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Dies ist freie Software; die Kopierbedingungen stehen in den Quellen. Es
gibt KEINE Garantie; auch nicht f³r MARKTG─NGIGKEIT oder F▄R SPEZIELLE ZWECKE.
=======

But I can't compile a simple "hello, world":

Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: mingw32
Configured with: ../gcc-4.5.2/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2 --enable-shared --enable-libgomp --disable-win32-registry --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-werror --build=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.5.2 (GCC) 
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-c' '-mtune=i386' '-march=i386'
 c:/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/cc1.exe -quiet -v -iprefix c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/ test.c -quiet -dumpbase test.c -mtune=i386 -march=i386 -auxbase test -version -o C:\PROFILES\rhartm2m\LOCALS~1\Temp\cctf0nbh.s
GNU C (GCC) version 4.5.2 (mingw32)
	compiled by GNU C version 4.5.2, GMP version 5.0.1, MPFR version 2.4.1, MPC version 0.8.1
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072
ignoring nonexistent directory "c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/mingw/include"
ignoring duplicate directory "c:/mingw/lib/gcc/../../include"
ignoring duplicate directory "c:/mingw/lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/include"
ignoring duplicate directory "c:/mingw/lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/include-fixed"
ignoring nonexistent directory "c:/mingw/lib/gcc/../../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/mingw/include"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../include
 c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/include
 c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/include-fixed
End of search list.
GNU C (GCC) version 4.5.2 (mingw32)
	compiled by GNU C version 4.5.2, GMP version 5.0.1, MPFR version 2.4.1, MPC version 0.8.1
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072
Compiler executable checksum: 48c0bd49e9a9404f24c600b71b435d06
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-c' '-mtune=i386' '-march=i386'
 as -o test.o C:\PROFILES\rhartm2m\LOCALS~1\Temp\cctf0nbh.s
gcc: CreateProcess: No such file or directory

=======

C:\MinGW\bin>gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.5.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Dies ist freie Software; die Kopierbedingungen stehen in den Quellen. Es
gibt KEINE Garantie; auch nicht f³r MARKTG─NGIGKEIT oder F▄R SPEZIELLE ZWECKE.


C:\MinGW\bin>g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 4.5.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Dies ist freie Software; die Kopierbedingungen stehen in den Quellen. Es
gibt KEINE Garantie; auch nicht f³r MARKTG─NGIGKEIT oder F▄R SPEZIELLE ZWECKE.


C:\MinGW\bin>as --version
'as' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\MinGW\bin>ld --version
'ld' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

======================

Ok "as" and "ld" are missing! This shouldn't happen. 

After this i went into cmd and

mingw-get --reinstall install binutils

doesn't help

C:\MinGW\bin>mingw-get --reinstall install as
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** as: unknown package

C:\MinGW\bin>mingw-get --reinstall install ld
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** ld: unknown package

Please help me!!! 
Thanks :-)

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>Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2012-10-21 08:59

Message:
Assigning to Keith as a reminder or closer.

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Comment By: Robert Hartmann (ifrh)
Date: 2011-11-03 08:13

Message:
Hi there,

today I could check the file permissions for the
C:\MinGW\var\lib\mingw-get\data\manifest*.xml.
You are right, the localuser hadn't permission to write into the manifest
files.  
But mingw-get doesn't report a permission error !


I did a clean installation as administrator in which Bug 3432808 occures. 

Now I want to test, what happend with file permissions: Normal Users
*sometimes* aren't 
allowed to write in the MinGW-tree. 
That means: Normal Users can save new files or create new folders inside
the MinGW-Tree but 
they can't delete ore modify any file which was created by the
administrator.

Step 1 (remove binutils as administrator):

mingw-get remove binutils
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma

Step 2 (delete binutils*.lzma as Administrator ):
del C:\MinGW\var\cache\mingw-get\packages\binutils*.lzma

Step 3 (install binutils as normal user and remove it directly):
mingw-get install binutils
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma?
download
1.75 MB / 1.75 MB       |================================================|
100%
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma?
download
488.87 kB / 488.87 kB   |================================================|
100%
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
?download
823.03 kB / 823.03 kB   |================================================|
100%
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma

mingw-get remove binutils
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** remove binutils: package is not installed
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** remove binutils: package is not installed
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** remove binutils: package is not installed

=============
Next scenario :
=============
Step 1 (install binutils as Administrator:
mingw-get install binutils
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma

Step 2 (Install binutils as normal user - assume normal user doesn't know
that it is installed allready):
mingw-get install binutils
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** package binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma is
alrea
dy installed
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** package binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma is
alrea
dy installed
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** package binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma is
alre
ady installed

Step 3 (Assume normal user doesn't want it any more):
mingw-get remove binutils
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma

Step 4 (Assume Administrator doesn't want it any more - and Administrator
doesn't know, that normal user has removed):
mingw-get remove binutils
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma: invalid
manifest; no references
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma: invalid
manifest; no references
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma: invalid
manifest; no references

======================

By the way, the original problem with wrong file contents in
binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma doesn't occure any more :-)

Best regards,
Robert Hartmann (Germany)

P.S. I think some new messages and permission tests should introduced into
mingw-get :-)

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Comment By: Robert Hartmann (ifrh)
Date: 2011-10-10 14:29

Message:
Hi Keith Marshall,

You wrote "Denial of permission to
update the manifests would explain the various 'not installed' or 'already
installed' anomalies you have observed. Of course, if this is the case, it
is a bug that this denial of permission isn't reported."

Until end of October 2011 I can't test it. But I remeber, that the normal
user (domain user with Power-User-Rights on local harddisk) wasn't allowed
to delete files from mingw-cache-folder which was created by
Computer-Administrator-account.

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Comment By: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Date: 2011-09-28 06:58

Message:
Robert,

If you want to be able to run mingw-get as a normal user (recommended), you
need to install it as that normal user in the first instance, or failing
that, ensure that all users have full access privileges for all files and
directories, throughout the MinGW directory hierarchy.

mingw-get works perfectly well through a network proxy, without any special
configuration requirements.  (There may have been authentication issues in
the past, but hopefully these are now resolved).  wget has no bearing on
the issue; mingw-get does NOT use it, in any way, shape or form.

If your proxy really is fulfilling a download request by saving previously
cached content from a different file, then that's a proxy malfunction
completely beyond mingw-get's power to resolve; you should take it up with
your network administrator.

'mingw-get remove ...' deletes the installed image, but NOT the cached
tarball from its package cache; this is by design.  Thus, if you have an
invalid tarball in the package cache, (mingw-get's cache, not the network
proxy cache), you MUST delete it manually, before you attempt to 'mingw-get
install --reinstall ...', to force a fresh download.

I'm puzzled by the 'already installed' diagnostics after the 'mingw-get
remove ...'; perhaps a privileges issue which wasn't caught, preventing
proper updating of the installation records, if the user running mingw-get
lacked access rights for the manifest and sysroot record files in the
var/lib/mingw-get/data directory.  It is imperative that the user running
mingw-get has full access privilege throughout the MinGW tree; in
particular he/she MUST be able to freely create and update any file within
var/lib/mingw-get/data, (with the possible exception of profile.xml which
must be readable, but not necessarily writeable).  Denial of permission to
update the manifests would explain the various 'not installed' or 'already
installed' anomalies you have observed.  Of course, if this is the case, it
is a bug that this denial of permission isn't reported.


Earnie,

mingw-get ALREADY detects and reports failed downloads, and will abort any
installation which requires the failed package.  In this case, the download
appeared to succeed, albeit with invalid content, so mingw-get was none the
wiser; it simply installed what it thought was the correct package
content.

Also, as noted above, 'mingw-get remove ...' doesn't help in this
circumstance; the defective package must be manually removed from the
package cache, to force a fresh download, after which 'mingw-get install
--reinstall ...' will suffice to overwrite the earlier defective
installation.  In this particular case, in which the content of mingwrt-dev
appears to have been assigned to the binutils-bin package, the 'mingw-get
remove ...' would have improperly deleted the mingwrt-dev files, so a
'mingw-get install --reinstall mingwrt-dev binutils' may now be required to
repair the installation.

Finally, the feature to request a download only is ALREADY supported;
'mingw-get install --download-only ...' is the incantation required. 
However, this will NOT replace a damaged tarball which is already present
in the cache; this requires manual removal of the bad package from the
cache beforehand.

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Comment By: Robert Hartmann (ifrh)
Date: 2011-09-28 05:08

Message:
Next try...
as Administrator I removed the binutils*mingw32*.tar.lzma from harddisk,
because normal user wasn't allowed to delete them.

Now I run as normal user

G:\>mingw-get install binutils
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma?
download
1.75 MB / 1.75 MB       |================================================|
100%
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma?
download
488.87 kB / 488.87 kB   |================================================|
100%
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
?download
823.03 kB / 823.03 kB   |================================================|
100%
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma

From file size this should be correct.

Now I try to remove as normal user but:

G:\>mingw-get remove binutils
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** remove binutils: package is not installed
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** remove binutils: package is not installed
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** remove binutils: package is not installed

Why "package is not installed" ... it should be! 

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Comment By: Robert Hartmann (ifrh)
Date: 2011-09-28 04:56

Message:
Hi,

I run "mingw-get remove binutils" as normal user.
I got the output:
******************
G:\>mingw-get remove binutils
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
******************

After this I looked into the directory:
C:\MinGW\var\cache\mingw-get\packages

There exist 
binutils-2.21.1-2mingw32-bin.tar.lzma  (556 KB)
binutils-2.21.1-2mingw32-doc.tar.lzma (489 KB)
binutils-2.21.1-2mingw32-lang.tar.lzma (824 KB)

Shouldn't these files become removed?

Now I run "mingw-get install binutils":

*******************
G:\>mingw-get install binutils
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** package binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma is
alrea
dy installed
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** package binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma is
alrea
dy installed
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** package binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma is
alre
ady installed

=> but I had told to remove ...


*******************

Ok next try as administrator:

G:\>mingw-get remove binutils
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma: invalid
manifes
t; no references
remove: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 removing release binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma: invalid
manife
st; no references

And as administrator 
mingw-get install binutils

G:\>mingw-get install binutils
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
install: binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma
 installing binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-lang.tar.lzma


But that doesn't help because the lzma-Files have the wrong contents ...

Very strange, using the same executable for installing at home (Windows XP
home edition, SP3) doesn't download a binutil-archive with wrong content. 

Is it possible to configure mingw-get to pass a proxy but ignore perhaps
cached contents,
that means something like the option --no-cache from GNU Wget.

Best regards,
Robert Hartmann from Germany

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2011-09-26 06:21

Message:
When the developer has a round tuit for this item he plans to add
recognition of a failed download.  Until then try

mingw-get remove binutils
mingw-get install binutils

I'm guessing that --reinstall isn't working due to the fact that the
package cache /var/cache/mingw-get/packages already contains a
binutils-VERSION-mingw32-bin.tar.gz file and a new download isn't being
accomplished with --reinstall.  Let us know if this procedure works for
you.

IIRC, there is already a request for options to download the files without
installing them.

Earnie

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Comment By: Robert Hartmann (ifrh)
Date: 2011-09-23 07:15

Message:
I said, that the file "binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma" which
was downloaded by mingw-get (mingw-get-inst) has only 556KB
as file size and is located in C:\MinGW\var\cache\mingw-get\packages.

And I asked, "Why doesn't mingw-get-inst, mingw-get complains about broken
download? "

The point is, that the download was not broken: The downloaded file is a
correct lzma-file, but not binutils. 

Here  is the contents list of the mingw-get (mingw-get-inst) downloaded
file:
[You can see, that aren't realy binutils!]

doc/
doc/runtime/
doc/runtime/CONTRIBUTORS
doc/runtime/DISCLAIMER
doc/runtime/README
include/
include/assert.h
include/complex.h
include/conio.h
include/ctype.h
include/dir.h
include/direct.h
include/dirent.h
include/dos.h
include/errno.h
include/excpt.h
include/fcntl.h
include/fenv.h
include/float.h
include/getopt.h
include/gmon.h
include/inttypes.h
include/io.h
include/libgen.h
include/limits.h
include/locale.h
include/malloc.h
include/math.h
include/mbctype.h
include/mbstring.h
include/mem.h
include/memory.h
include/process.h
include/profil.h
include/profile.h
include/search.h
include/setjmp.h
include/share.h
include/signal.h
include/stdint.h
include/stdio.h
include/stdlib.h
include/string.h
include/strings.h
include/sys/
include/sys/fcntl.h
include/sys/file.h
include/sys/locking.h
include/sys/param.h
include/sys/stat.h
include/sys/time.h
include/sys/timeb.h
include/sys/types.h
include/sys/unistd.h
include/sys/utime.h
include/tchar.h
include/time.h
include/unistd.h
include/utime.h
include/values.h
include/varargs.h
include/wchar.h
include/wctype.h
include/_mingw.h
lib/
lib/binmode.o
lib/crt1.o
lib/crt2.o
lib/crtmt.o
lib/crtst.o
lib/CRT_fp10.o
lib/CRT_fp8.o
lib/CRT_noglob.o
lib/dllcrt1.o
lib/dllcrt2.o
lib/gcrt1.o
lib/gcrt2.o
lib/libcoldname.a
lib/libcrtdll.a
lib/libgmon.a
lib/libm.a
lib/libmingw32.a
lib/libmingwex.a
lib/libmingwthrd.a
lib/libmingwthrd_old.a
lib/libmoldname.a
lib/libmoldname70.a
lib/libmoldname70d.a
lib/libmoldname71.a
lib/libmoldname71d.a
lib/libmoldname80.a
lib/libmoldname80d.a
lib/libmoldname90.a
lib/libmoldname90d.a
lib/libmoldnamed.a
lib/libmsvcr70.a
lib/libmsvcr70d.a
lib/libmsvcr71.a
lib/libmsvcr71d.a
lib/libmsvcr80.a
lib/libmsvcr80d.a
lib/libmsvcr90.a
lib/libmsvcr90d.a
lib/libmsvcrt.a
lib/libmsvcrtd.a
lib/txtmode.o
share/
share/man/
share/man/man3/
share/man/man3/basename.3
share/man/man3/dirname.3

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Comment By: Robert Hartmann (ifrh)
Date: 2011-09-23 06:39

Message:
I found out, that the file "binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma" which
was downloaded by mingw-get (mingw-get-inst)  in directory has only 556KB
as file size located in C:\MinGW\var\cache\mingw-get\packages
BUT 
the file "binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma" downloaded with FireFox
from URL
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/MinGW/BaseSystem/GNU-Binutils/binutils-2.21.1/binutils-2.21.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fmingw%2Ffiles%2FMinGW%2FBaseSystem%2FGNU-Binutils%2Fbinutils-2.21.1%2F&ts=1316784194&use_mirror=dfn

has 1796 KB as file size.   

Between 556 KB and 1796 KB is to much difference:
So something is realy going wrong with mingw-get but perhaps only if you
are behind a proxy?

Why doesn't mingw-get-inst, mingw-get complains about broken download? 

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