X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject :references:in-reply-to; q=dns; s=default; b=pO8igTdd4FcQhQpCq8q Fr9XKCzodtHQJq7iiqPIYDwIpUpQ4iAhcN08oVyKnI9bSrTmMMqd15kDNIOrGUr+ 982WX/Q59q4aCLZpR/4l1Fo7Mk2oBx7ODRy+jCxmA0zr2/j0Jz64o1MJL/gQVqRN eswUX3wlq5Bm/ui7uMp+Fcdg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject :references:in-reply-to; s=default; bh=TfW6iQrSKLpqUWXiNYquDXZKz qw=; b=O2aKzK7uMdv6HpKPbi5eGWXulrlcE+aoeC1eQdghmu9QViJ9VMIsSXiwG rJqNkA8amSe02QBX9YnScZBpwsJ4R7A5yixYjgTCEO96K69LqS2isUOFbvspv610 THkPkG5IHTQzN7ekz5/FDcY2za7cCJ/LV0341iPDNDQ43hD4tA= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173017pub.verizon.net MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Message-id: <53FB80F9.1050107@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:31:21 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly References: In-reply-to: On 08/25/2014 01:33 PM, Björn Kautler wrote: > Hi, > > I usually start setup.exe like "setup.exe -K > http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg" and select the cygwinports mirror > and a "normal" mirror in the mirror selection page to have the > packages from both mirrors readily available, selectable and > updatable. > > Unfortunatley, setup.exe seems to not handle this properly if a > package is present on both mirrors. When I look at the available > versions for the git packages, then I only see the 1.8 versions from > cygwinports, not the newly released ones from the normal mirror. (yes, > I made sure I selected a mirror where the packages are already > available) > > In such a case I think setup.exe should provide the versions of all > the mirrors for selection and auto-select the newest version > cross-mirror for update. Sure, a feature like this could be added to setup*.exe. No doubt anyone that wants to offer a patch to support this would receive a thoughtful review of it. :-) A few thoughts and points of clarification. 1. cygwinports, while a commonly referred to site on this list, is not a site supported by cygwin.com or this list. 2. cygwinports is more akin to a repository than a mirror. All Cygwin (current, up-to-date, and valid) mirrors contain the same packages. cygwinports contains, typically, packages that are not distributed by cygwin.com and vice-versa. 3. setup*.exe currently has a design to support Cygwin mirrors. It's currently flexible (or dumb? ;-) ) enough to consider other repositories as well but this is not its primary function and doing so may reveal some of its limitations (as you've found). -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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