On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:24:52AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: >On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>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. >> >>Be *VERY* careful to check the packages setup tries to update. ??If >>you see that it tries to "update" your Cygwin from 1.7.0-68 to >>1.5.25-15, then CANCEL setup.exe IMMEDIATELY and try another mirror. >> >>Hopefully this negative side-effect has been rectified by the mirror >>updates within the next 24 hours. > >Yes. I noticed that and thanks for posting the message about it. I >have globally denied access to my mirror for the moment until >unscheduled update is done. Once the update has completed it will be >opened up again so if you are getting forbidden errors on it then you >know why.
If people are really able to use out-of-date mirrors without getting a warning then perhaps one of our vast pool of setup.exe developers would be interested in figuring out why? cgf -- 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
