From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make setup mirror list more like web page not just urls
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0da4407-7996-39d4-d55e-f44130c7c711@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d99921d9-5e12-4b56-484a-0de2071207e5@cornell.edu>
On 11/17/2017 8:48 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> which that fails. Also, you shouldn't be relying on the servername
> field being filled in.
One further comment about the servername field: AFAICT, the only use
that's made of this field is to distinguish "official" mirrors (those
listed in mirrors.lst, either now or in the past) from sites added by
the user. See 'check_dropped_mirrors()' and 'write_cache_list()' in
site.cc.
I find this confusing, and it apparently threw Brian off also.
Moreover, it seems to be undocumented. I suggest either documenting
this or changing it. My preference is to change it, but I'm still
thinking about how to best do that. I'll probably send a patch later.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-19 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-15 21:35 Brian Inglis
2017-11-17 13:48 ` Ken Brown
2017-11-19 20:24 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2017-11-17 13:53 ` Jon Turney
2017-11-20 21:30 ` Brian Inglis
2017-11-20 22:59 ` Ken Brown
2017-11-20 23:02 ` Ken Brown
2017-11-22 16:48 ` Brian Inglis
2017-11-22 16:42 ` Brian Inglis
2017-11-23 21:07 ` Ken Brown
2017-11-24 6:23 ` Brian Inglis
2017-11-24 16:21 ` Ken Brown
2017-11-24 21:48 ` Brian Inglis
2017-11-25 16:49 ` Ken Brown
2017-11-25 17:44 ` Brian Inglis
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