On Feb 16 14:12, Luke Kendall wrote: > On 10/02/15 09:39, Luke Kendall wrote: > >On 06/02/15 21:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > "Of course"? In fact upset (the script creating the setup.ini files) > > > reads the content of md5.sum and uses the checksums in there if > > > available to create the setup.ini entry. It only computes its own > > > checksum if the md5.sum file is missing the info. So, afaics, in border > > > cases in which a file gets replaced, there is a chance that the > > > setup.ini checksum is incorrect as well. In theory that's not supposed > > > to happen because replacing a distro package should always include > > > bumping the subversion, thus creating a new file and just removing the > > > old one. > > > >Hmm, that's interesting. > > > >I based what I said on my experience; I've tried to work out how it fits > >together by looking at the files we get via rsyncing from mirrors. It's > >not like I've read some reference that describes the Cygwin packaging > >and release process and procedures (I have a feeling that such a > >reference would be setup.exe's source code, by I may also be quite > >mistaken about that). > > > >But the mismatches have been so common, and persisted so long, that I > >(perhaps wrongly) came to the conclusion that relying on the md5.sum > >file was bad, simply because in all the mismatches I've seen over the > >last several months (I'm guessing something like six), setup.ini has > >been correct and the package md5.sum has been wrong; and the error has > >persisted for many, many days. > > > >I suppose another possibility is that we *think* we're rsyncing nightly, > >and we're not, and it's only the automated consistency check that's > >really running each night! I'll check into that possibility. > > Just to close this off: this was indeed the answer. We had rsync-ed -src > and debuginfo packages at one point, but they were being excluded those from > the nightly updates. (I was unaware of that.) > > So I was wrong. I apologise for the mistake.
No reason to apologize. But it's nice to know the problem is known and fixed. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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