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Re: [PATCH setup 0/4] Distinguish between user URLs and cygwin mirrors in UI
- From: Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 11:06:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 0/4] Distinguish between user URLs and cygwin mirrors in UI
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- References: <20171203152255.7368-1-kbrown@cornell.edu>
- Reply-to: Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca
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?
There are a bunch of distro mirrors that are not "official"/listed publicly:
many unis and local UUGs mirror distros on publicly accessible hosts, that are
not on distros' mirror lists, probably because they don't want any extra admin,
support, or network load.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada