Dave or others, Could someone check my diagnoses on this and my patch as shown in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-09/msg00015.html and see if you concur with my findings. I didn't post this to patches as I wanted confirmation and I was sure the my code needed checking and there was probably a better way.
What I found on this was that when a mirror is found to be out of date it is marked at the end of the mirrors-lst file as follows: > # Following mirrors re-added by setup.exe to warn again about dropped urls. > ftp://sourceware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/sourceware.org/cygwin;sourceware.mirro > rs.tds.net;North America;Wisconsin When I removed these line manually because the mirrors in fact current then the mirror check proceeds as normal and no warning occurs. I looked at my Windows 2000 machine and found a similar line for the gatech mirror which when removed from the mirror-lst file the warning goes away in setup on that machine as well. I then left the line there and started setup and the line stays with the updated mirrors-lst file leading me to believe that setup is copying those lines each time from the old mirrors-lst file to the new and somehow missing the fact the mirror is now current. Looking at the code in site.cc in check_dropped_mirrors it does appear to be checking that the server is valid but also check the end of list at the same time so something is not quite right. I am sure there was a better way but I simply added code to double check the server was valid before letting the site get added to the warn dialog or to the dropped list. Just curious if I was right or not.
