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Re: Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.867)
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:56:32 +0300
- Subject: Re: Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.867)
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Luke Kendall!
>> A new version of Setup, release 2.867, has been uploaded to
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version)
>> https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
>>
>> The changes compared to 2.864 are mostly not visible:
>>
>> - There's one fix to the output when mistyping a command line option.
>>
>> - More importantly, Setup now understands SHA512 checksums additionally
>> to MD5 checksums. We're going to switch to using SHA512 checksums in
>> the setup.ini files in a couple of weeks and this requires all of you
>> to use the newer Setup version.
>>
>>
>> Please send bug reports, as usual, to the public mailing list
>> cygwin AT cygwin DOT com.
>>
>>
>> Have fun,
>> Corinna
>>
> I was just wondering, will you be dropping the md5.sum files from the
> package directories at the same time? I'd be happy to see them
> disappear from the mirrors - they're an internal thing, right? Just
> this week I noticed that cygwin64-gcc-4.8.3-4-src.tar.xz's md5 checksum
> in its md5.sum file was incorrect (but its md5 in setup.ini was of
> course correct).
You're not the first one to notice occasional mirror desyncs.
This question has been raised at least once already.
> Though I'm probably the only person on the planet who cares. :-) It's
> just an idle question.
That's just a desync in mirror. Normally fixes itself in a matter of hours.
P.S.
Would be wonderful, if you teach your mail agent to insert proper threading
headers.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 06.02.2015, <09:50>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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