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As far as a vanilla packages update is concerned, the new version works 
nicely. My list had but one package to be updated (expected as I 
recently updated). Nice work!


On 7/15/2018 10:23 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>
> A new setup release candidate is available at:
>
>   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.892.x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
>   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.892.x86.exe    (32 bit version)
>
> Please test and report any problems here.
>
> Changes compared to 2.891:
>
> - Fix building with libgpg-error 1.28
>
> - Raise a fatal error on a corrupt archive in "install from local 
> directory" mode
>   Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2018-03/msg00037.html
>
> - Packages listed in the "confirm" dialog are now sorted alphabetically
>   Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-02/msg00078.html
>
> - Fix creating a bogus current version with an empty version number 
> for packages which only have a test version
>
> - Fix ignoring the last package version in all setup.ini files but the 
> last one read
>
> - Allow command-line uninstallation of specified orphaned packages
>
> - Dependencies of packages specified to be installed or upgraded on 
> the command-line are now upgraded, if required (as we now record these 
> packages being in a "no changes requested" state, rather than a "keep" 
> state that would cause a conflict)
>
> - Packages which have been upgraded automatically are now correctly 
> reported as "automatically added" in the "confirm" dialog,
>
> - mirrors.lst is now fetched using https://
>
> - Literal URLs in dialogs now reference https://cygwin.com/
>
> - Fix a bug (dating from 2003) in saving an empty network proxy password
>
> - Correctly handle 'provides:' and 'conflicts:' for installed packages
>
> - Add a '--no-version-check' option, to suppress the warning that a 
> newer version of setup is available
>
> - Don't check setup-version: to warn about potential setup.ini parsing 
> problems if a setup-minimum-version: is specified.
>
> - Propagate the exit code of the elevated process, when --wait is used
>   Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-07/msg00020.html 
> (partially)
>
> - Properly track the sites providing a given version of a packages (To 
> correctly handle local installs where required packages are spread 
> between cache directories for more than one mirror, and correctly fall 
> back to an alternate mirror when multiple mirrors are used and a 
> problem occurs connecting to the first mirror tried)
>
> - Don't use CRLF terminators when writing dependency problems to logfile
>   Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-03/msg00266.html
>
> - Fix a bug which sometimes caused a wildly incorrect value to be used 
> for the expected size download progress was measured against
>
>
> Again, many thanks to Ken Brown for doing all the hard work.
>
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