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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 =C2=A0It/They may be out of date or missing some packages.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

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