Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:11:04 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7  installation
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>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.

Shouldn't you get a warning when you use a mirror that is no longer listed?

According to the source, you should see this message:

  One or more mirrors you have selected is/are not on the
  list of official Cygwin mirrors any more.
  It/They may be out of date or missing some packages.
  This affects the following mirror(s):

cgf

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