On Dec 23 10:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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 It/They may be out of date or missing some packages.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 didn't get this message. I was using a local mirror which isn't listed on the mirrors page. Probably that was the reason. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
