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Re: Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.867)


On Feb 16 14:12, Luke Kendall wrote:
> On 10/02/15 09:39, Luke Kendall wrote:
> >On 06/02/15 21:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > "Of course"?  In fact upset (the script creating the setup.ini files)
> > > reads the content of md5.sum and uses the checksums in there if
> > > available to create the setup.ini entry.  It only computes its own
> > > checksum if the md5.sum file is missing the info.  So, afaics, in border
> > > cases in which a file gets replaced, there is a chance that the
> > > setup.ini checksum is incorrect as well.  In theory that's not supposed
> > > to happen because replacing a distro package should always include
> > > bumping the subversion, thus creating a new file and just removing the
> > > old one.
> >
> >Hmm, that's interesting.
> >
> >I based what I said on my experience; I've tried to work out how it fits
> >together by looking at the files we get via rsyncing from mirrors.  It's
> >not like I've read some reference that describes the Cygwin packaging
> >and release process and procedures (I have a feeling that such a
> >reference would be setup.exe's source code, by I may also be quite
> >mistaken about that).
> >
> >But the mismatches have been so common, and persisted so long, that I
> >(perhaps wrongly) came to the conclusion that relying on the md5.sum
> >file was bad, simply because in all the mismatches I've seen over the
> >last several months (I'm guessing something like six), setup.ini has
> >been correct and the package md5.sum has been wrong; and the error has
> >persisted for many, many days.
> >
> >I suppose another possibility is that we *think* we're rsyncing nightly,
> >and we're not, and it's only the automated consistency check that's
> >really running each night!  I'll check into that possibility.
> 
> Just to close this off: this was indeed the answer.  We had rsync-ed -src
> and debuginfo packages at one point, but they were being excluded those from
> the nightly updates.  (I was unaware of that.)
> 
> So I was wrong.  I apologise for the mistake.

No reason to apologize.  But it's nice to know the problem is known
and fixed.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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