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Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:31:21 -0400
From:	"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly
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On 08/25/2014 01:33 PM, Björn Kautler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I usually start setup.exe like "setup.exe -K
> http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg" and select the cygwinports mirror
> and a "normal" mirror in the mirror selection page to have the
> packages from both mirrors readily available, selectable and
> updatable.
>
> Unfortunatley, setup.exe seems to not handle this properly if a
> package is present on both mirrors. When I look at the available
> versions for the git packages, then I only see the 1.8 versions from
> cygwinports, not the newly released ones from the normal mirror. (yes,
> I made sure I selected a mirror where the packages are already
> available)
>
> In such a case I think setup.exe should provide the versions of all
> the mirrors for selection and auto-select the newest version
> cross-mirror for update.

Sure, a feature like this could be added to setup*.exe.  No doubt
anyone that wants to offer a patch to support this would receive a
thoughtful review of it. :-)

A few thoughts and points of clarification.

   1. cygwinports, while a commonly referred to site on this list, is not a
      site supported by cygwin.com or this list.

   2. cygwinports is more akin to a repository than a mirror.  All Cygwin
      (current, up-to-date, and valid) mirrors contain the same packages.
      cygwinports contains, typically, packages that are not distributed
      by cygwin.com and vice-versa.

   3. setup*.exe currently has a design to support Cygwin mirrors.  It's
      currently flexible (or dumb? ;-) ) enough to consider other
      repositories as well but this is not its primary function and doing
      so may reveal some of its limitations (as you've found).

-- 
Larry

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