X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46489A67.7090503@determina.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:20:39 -0700 From: Alexander Sotirov User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MD5s of setup.exe on mirrors. References: <5qd5179mvu.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <4644CB03.9070707@determina.com> <063001c7947a$3312cea0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <46461FA2.E6EFA773@dessent.net> <20070513161110.GA5651@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20070513161110.GA5651@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Christopher Faylor wrote: > It was actually all academic before since: 1) there was nothing wrong > with the setup.exe on the mirrors and 2) people shouldn't have been > running setup.exe from the mirrors to begin with. Can you elaborate on why people shouldn't run setup.exe from the mirrors? I don't see what is the difference between setup.exe and the other packages. If you trust the mirror for all other binaries, why don't you trust it for setup.exe? Alex -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/