Greetings, Luke Kendall! >> A new version of Setup, release 2.867, has been uploaded to >> >> https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version) >> https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (64 bit version) >> >> The changes compared to 2.864 are mostly not visible: >> >> - There's one fix to the output when mistyping a command line option. >> >> - More importantly, Setup now understands SHA512 checksums additionally >> to MD5 checksums. We're going to switch to using SHA512 checksums in >> the setup.ini files in a couple of weeks and this requires all of you >> to use the newer Setup version. >> >> >> Please send bug reports, as usual, to the public mailing list >> cygwin AT cygwin DOT com. >> >> >> Have fun, >> Corinna >>
> I was just wondering, will you be dropping the md5.sum files from the > package directories at the same time? I'd be happy to see them > disappear from the mirrors - they're an internal thing, right? Just > this week I noticed that cygwin64-gcc-4.8.3-4-src.tar.xz's md5 checksum > in its md5.sum file was incorrect (but its md5 in setup.ini was of > course correct). You're not the first one to notice occasional mirror desyncs. This question has been raised at least once already. > Though I'm probably the only person on the planet who cares. :-) It's > just an idle question. That's just a desync in mirror. Normally fixes itself in a matter of hours. P.S. Would be wonderful, if you teach your mail agent to insert proper threading headers. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 06.02.2015, <09:50> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
