X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4648A523.1010705@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:06:27 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070308 Fedora/1.5.0.10-2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 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> <46489A67.7090503@determina.com> In-Reply-To: <46489A67.7090503@determina.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Alexander Sotirov wrote: > 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? Propagation time delays would be one reason. Since it's easy to grab 'setup.exe' from the source, there's no sense using one that might be dated. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/