From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 101545 invoked by alias); 8 May 2017 19:53:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 100586 invoked by uid 89); 8 May 2017 19:53:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=UD:setup.ini, setupini, sk:allow-u, GUI X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 May 2017 19:53:47 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id C968F20953; Mon, 8 May 2017 15:53:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 08 May 2017 15:53:48 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host31-51-207-210.range31-51.btcentralplus.com [31.51.207.210]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3C6A87E9E6; Mon, 8 May 2017 15:53:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test References: From: Jon Turney Cc: "Peter A. Castro" To: The Cygwin Mailing List Message-ID: Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 21:55:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-05/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 On 08/05/2017 19:26, Peter A. Castro wrote: > On Mon, 8 May 2017, Jon Turney wrote: [...] >> >> - Add --allow-unsupported-windows option >> Don't check the windows version. > > Huzzah!! Thanks for this!! No problem. >> The Cygwin mirror list is not read, so a URL (e.g. a Cygwin time >> machine circa) should be given with --site or via the GUI. >> >> - Remove support for some long-obsolete setup.ini syntax (omitted >> version:, omitted size and checksum, various undocumented tokens) > > Can you tell me what Setup will do if it encounters one of these > "obsolete" setup.ini? Throw an error? Ignore the omission (how?)? > Ignore the entire package entry?? Allow the user to continue anyway? I'm afraid I'd have to test it to be sure, but I think that setup will report a syntax error and attempt to continue processing the setup.ini file. I suspect the package will not be in very useful state lacking version or archive information. -- 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