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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:58:07 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:17:31PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
>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. ??If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mirror
>>>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 listed?
>>
>> According to the source, you should see this message:
>>
>> ??One or more mirrors you have selected is/are not on the
>> ??list of official Cygwin mirrors any more.
>> ??It/They may be out of date or missing some packages.
>> ??This 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.

mirrorservice.org is actually listed as being up-to-date so if that really
was happening then it looks like something else is going on.

cgf

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