X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:58:07 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation Message-ID: <20091223155807.GA28777@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20091223113731.GH17465@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091223151104.GA28104@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <416096c60912230717h5d027117t781356be7fa6a8e1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <416096c60912230717h5d027117t781356be7fa6a8e1@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:17:31PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote: >2009/12/23 Christopher Faylor: >> 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 ??It/They may be out of date or missing some packages.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): > >I did get that message on one machine, which I think was set to the >tu-dresden mirror, but not on another a few hours later that was set >to www.mirrorservice.org. The latter looked like it was going to >downgrade to 1.5 in the 'partial' package view. I didn't press Next to >try. mirrorservice.org is actually listed as being up-to-date so if that really was happening then it looks like something else is going on. cgf -- 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