From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 68160 invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2017 15:33:58 -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 68144 invoked by uid 89); 16 Dec 2017 15:33:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=cygwinapps, pursuing, day X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:33:56 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id vBGFXsbn004313 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:33:54 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.15] (mta-68-175-129-7.twcny.rr.com [68.175.129.7] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id vBGFXqg4019764 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:33:53 -0500 Subject: Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy" To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <64D09542-A92E-423B-A6C0-479A025B0759@solidrocksystems.com> <5a35304c.9ba6ca0a.5e71f.8a99@mx.google.com> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:47:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5a35304c.9ba6ca0a.5e71f.8a99@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00158.txt.bz2 On 12/16/2017 9:40 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > you presented a use case > where > you were creating custom archives, then putting them in local package > directory, > then not updating setup.ini. wait no, that was Ken Actually that's not what I said. You jumped to a conclusion based on an admittedly sketchy description of my use case. But it's an obscure use case anyway, and I'm not interested in pursuing it. I'm currently working on a patch that implements my suggestion (query the user). I expect to send it to cygwin-apps within the next day or so. Ken -- 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