[PATCH setup v4 0/6] Distinguish between user URLs and cygwin mirrors in UI

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Dec 11 21:36:00 GMT 2017


On 12/10/2017 12:49 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> TODO: Implement a way of validating purported mirrors.  For example,
> we could make sure they are signed with the cygwin signing key.  Or if
> the user has used the -X option to turn off signature checking, we
> could make sure that setup.ini contains "release: cygwin".
> 
> Once we finish discussing this patch series, I'll look into that.

I went ahead and did this, just to make sure it would work as expected. 
I'll post it shortly as a second patch series (depending on this one).

Ken



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