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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 18:06:47 +1000 (EST)
From: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: Does setup.exe ignore setup.hint md5 checksum?
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On  6 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>  Not on cygwin.com.  The md5sum is correct there. 

Sure, sure, I didn't mean to imply that.  We've found a mirror site
that wasn't broken, as of last night.

>  Setup.exe doesn't know about setup.hint.  It only gets the data from 
>  the top-level file setup.ini which contains the assembled setup.hint 
>  contents of all packages. 

Okay, so if setup ignores the package setup.hint files, my mirror
download integrity checker script will ignore them too!

Thanks, Corinna,

luke


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