Multiple pending setup patches
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Fri Oct 14 13:19:00 GMT 2005
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 14 03:30, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > > > Is there any way that my proposal of adding a check to see if the currently
> > > > selected mirror is in the list of mirrors and issuing a pop-up warning if
> > > > not, could be implemented?
> > > >
> > > > I suppose that this would have to be defeatable for people who want to
> > > > use setup.exe for in-house mirrors but I'm not too worried about that.
> > >
> > > Ouch, I am. It should be possible to switch this off, or setup should
> > > differ between a mirror from the list, which just isn't available right
> > > now, and a mirror which has been added manually.
> >
> > What I had in mind was something like this:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Warning: The mirror you have selected is not on the list
> > of official Cygwin mirrors. It may be out of date
> > or missing some packages. If you experience
> > installation problems consider trying an official
> > mirror.
> >
> > [X] Don't show this again
> >
> > [ OK ]
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> That's it.
FWIW, I was thinking more of a command-line option to turn it off, rather
than a user-changeable setting...
Igor
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