X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:38:20 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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 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. Be *VERY* careful to check the packages setup tries to update. If you see that it tries to "update" your Cygwin from 1.7.0-68 to 1.5.25-15, then CANCEL setup.exe IMMEDIATELY and try another mirror. Hopefully this negative side-effect has been rectified by the mirror updates within the next 24 hours. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple