From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Package choosing algorithm ...
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160321100007.GK3422@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf41d85cb0aa96624fd4383778eb1287@xs4all.nl>
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On Mar 20 17:54, Houder wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
>
> A year ago you changed the "package choosing algorithm" ...
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00034.html
> - [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.864) -- by Corinna Vinschen
> Here C. announces the modification of the "package choosing algorithm"
> (and the introduction of the "mirror mode")
>
> When I started setup (2.873) and selected "Download without Installing", it
> offered me to download version 2.5.0-0.8 of cygwin (installed: 2.5.0-0.7).
>
> Splendid!
>
> However when I restarted setup and selected "Install from Local Directory",
> it did NOT offer me to install version 2.5.0-0.8 ...
>
> (Meaning, I had to restart setup AGAIN, and force it to install the last
> version of cygwin - a bit annoying, as you wrote in [1])
>
> Did your modification only apply to the "Download without Installing" part
> of setup? (i.e. downloading from internet)
I'm using "Install from Local Directory: all the time (having a local
mirror dir) and it works fine for me. No idea what has gone different
in your scenario. If there's a bug, we're certainly open to get fixes :)
Corinna
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-20 16:55 Houder
2016-03-21 10:00 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-03-21 10:23 ` Houder
2016-03-21 12:40 ` Houder
2016-03-22 9:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-03-22 17:44 ` Ian Lambert
2016-03-23 16:22 ` Houder
2016-04-06 10:29 ` Houder
2016-04-06 10:49 ` Package choosing algorithm ... more clarification Houder
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