X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:21:35 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MD5s of setup.exe on mirrors. Message-ID: <20070514182135.GA6692@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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> <4648A523.1010705@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4648A523.1010705@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:06:27PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >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. That + if you want to talk about trust then you should trust the method that we advertise for installing cygwin which is to click on the "Install Cygwin Now!" link. -- 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/