Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>]

Greetings, Ken Brown!

> On 12/14/2017 2:46 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, Ken Brown!
>> 
>>> This is a followup to the discussion started here:
>> 
>>>     https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-12/msg00088.html
>> 
>>> When setup is preparing to download files and it finds a corrupt copy in
>>> the local cache, it issues a fatal error message telling the user to
>>> remove the corrupt file and retry.  Steven said that setup should
>>> silently delete the corrupt file, while I argued in favor of the current
>>> behavior, on the grounds that setup shouldn't be deleting user files if
>>> it doesn't know where they came from.
>> 
>> The point being, if this is a "Download" Setup mode, the files are NOT "User"
>> files, but a local setup cache. And all files therein SHOULD be valid package
>> archives.
>> There's of course situations, when setup.ini on server become corrupted or
>> otherwise out of sync. But being rare, they should not interfere too much.
>> 
>>> There is a middle ground: setup could query the user.  Additionally, as
>>> suggested by cyg Simple, there could be an option that directs setup to
>>> silently remove corrupt files.
>> 
>> Make it mode dependent.
>> If it's a "download[ and install]" mode, cleanup and redownload.
>> If redownloaded file still does not match the setup.ini hash or if it's an
>> "install from local cache" mode, leave file alone for investigation and notify
>> the user.

> You've misunderstood the context.  The error is only shown in download or 
> download/install mode.

Where did I say, when this error is shown currently?

> And, as I said, it happens when setup is *preparing* to
> download files and finds a corrupt copy already present in the local cache. In
> that context, setup has no idea where the file came from.

Please forget about current behavior and read my post again.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, December 15, 2017 15:44:59

Sorry for my terrible english...


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