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From: "Markus E.L." <ls-cygwin-2006 AT m-e-leypold DOT de>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 22:27:09 +0200
In-Reply-To: <4648A523.1010705@cygwin.com> (Larry Hall's message of "Mon, 14  May 2007 14:06:27 -0400")
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"LarryHall(Cygwin)" writes:

> 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.

setup.exe is/was almost two years old. It doesn't seem to change too
often. Did you mean setup.ini instead? But setup.ini is coming from
the mirror, isn't it?

(And this is a serious question: If it comes from the mirror, what
happens if a mirror has setup.ini updated, but not all of the packages
yet?)

Regards -- Markus



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