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Re: [Bug] Re3gression in setup handling of SHA512 checksum failures


On 3/21/2018 8:35 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2018-03-21 12:14, Ken Brown wrote:
On 3/20/2018 4:11 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Ken Brown writes:
I'll look into both of these issues, unless Jon beats me to it.

Thanks.

By the way, this only affects local installs.  For network installs,
the hash gets checked at an earlier stage.

That's correct.  I forgot to mention that, but all my installs are from
a local mirror (necessary due to the way network access is restricted at
my workplace)

I haven't been able to come up with a safe way to recover from a checksum error
at this point, at least not without a lot of work.  I propose that we just bail
out with an appropriate error message in this situation.

Patch attached.

Skipping a single package install is likely to be /relatively/ safe, but if this
patch causes setup to exit sometime after upgrading a bunch of packages but
before upgrading another bunch of packages, it could leave Cygwin unusable,
especially if there are upgrade dependencies between the packages installed
prior and not installed after the problematic download.

It would be better in such cases to check all the hashes before proceeding with
any of the installs

We already do that. My patch deals with the situation where we find a corrupt file during this process.

Ken


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