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Re: gcc4-core PACKAGE BUG
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 03:20:40PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 01:15:20PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>On 08/14/2010 01:13 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 08:05:00PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> So I really don't think it's worth the end-user's while in this
>>>> instance, but I'd like to hear what Corinna and cgf think before I
>>>> proceed.
>>>
>>> I'm with you on this, Dave. Your reasonsing seems right to me. I don't
>>> normally like to make silent changes to existing packages but in this
>>> case it seems like the least intrusive way to fix the problem.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't even announce the change since that would probably generate
>>> some confusion.
>>
>>My only worry now is if any mirrors will have a stale checksum that
>>doesn't correspond to the new tarball. But I'm convinced that it's
>>worth trying the silent upgrade, now.
>
>That's a good point. Dave, when you make the change, please remove any
>md5.sum in that directory. That will force the file to be regenerated
>and upset will do the right thing if it isn't there.
To be clear:
"that directory" == /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin/release/gcc4/...
cgf