X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:11:04 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation Message-ID: <20091223151104.GA28104@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20091223113731 DOT GH17465 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091223113731.GH17465@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 It/They may be out of date or missing some packages.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 -- 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