[PATCH setup 0/4] Distinguish between user URLs and cygwin mirrors in UI
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun Dec 3 18:54:00 GMT 2017
On 12/3/2017 1:06 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2017-12-03 08:22, Ken Brown wrote:
>> This is a followup to
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-04/msg00014.html .
>>
>> In that message Jon suggested splitting site selection into two pages,
>> one for cygwin.com mirrors and one for additional user URLs. The
>> latter would be visible only if the user had previously checked a
>> suitable checkbox.
>>
>> I attempted to implement this but found it to be too complicated.
>> This patch series implements a variant of that suggestion. There is
>> still only one site selection page, but it now has a checkbox "Allow
>> sites that are not cygwin.com mirrors". The box is initially
>> unchecked unless the "last-mirror" user setting in setup.rc contains a
>> non-mirror.
>
> Will this interfere with running setup -gM using an "unofficial" last-mirror
> to skip to the package upgrade/selection page?
No, it doesn't seem to.
Ken
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