Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>]

Greetings, Bjorn Kautler!

> I usually start setup.exe like "setup.exe -K
> http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg"; and select the cygwinports mirror
> and a "normal" mirror in the mirror selection page to have the
> packages from both mirrors readily available, selectable and
> updatable.

> Unfortunatley, setup.exe seems to not handle this properly if a
> package is present on both mirrors. When I look at the available
> versions for the git packages, then I only see the 1.8 versions from
> cygwinports, not the newly released ones from the normal mirror. (yes,
> I made sure I selected a mirror where the packages are already
> available)

> In such a case I think setup.exe should provide the versions of all
> the mirrors for selection and auto-select the newest version
> cross-mirror for update.

Never had a problem.

P.S.
run ./setup-${ARCH}.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg -O -s http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ -s http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwinports/


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 26.08.2014, <00:37>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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