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Date: | Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:21:08 +0000 |
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Subject: | Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation |
From: | Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com> |
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2009/12/23 Andy Koppe: > 2009/12/23 Christopher Faylor: >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>Hi, >>> >>>I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 >>>release area. =C2=A0If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mir= ror >>>which hasn't catched up with the update yet, you are in danger to >>>overwrite your 1.7 installation with a Cygwin 1.5.25-based installation. >> >> Shouldn't you get a warning when you use a mirror that is no longer list= ed? >> >> According to the source, you should see this message: >> >> =C2=A0One or more mirrors you have selected is/are not on the >> =C2=A0list of official Cygwin mirrors any more. >> =C2=A0It/They may be out of date or missing some packages. >> =C2=A0This affects the following mirror(s): > > I did get that message on one machine, which I think was set to the > tu-dresden mirror, but not on another a few hours later that was set > to www.mirrorservice.org. The latter looked like it was going to > downgrade to 1.5 in the 'partial' package view. I didn't press Next to > try. ps: Caching effects perhaps? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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