2009/12/23 Christopher Faylor: > 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 It/They may be out of date or missing some packages.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):
I did get that message on one machine, which I think was set to the tu-dresden mirror, but not on another a few hours later that was set to www.mirrorservice.org. The latter looked like it was going to downgrade to 1.5 in the 'partial' package view. I didn't press Next to try. Andy -- 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
