HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

Wed Dec 23 15:11:00 GMT 2009

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hi,
>>I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7
>release area. If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mirror
>which hasn't catched up with the update yet, you are in danger to
>overwrite your 1.7 installation with a Cygwin 1.5.25-based installation.

Shouldn't you get a warning when you use a mirror that is no longer listed?
According to the source, you should see this message:
 One or more mirrors you have selected is/are not on the
 list of official Cygwin mirrors any more.
 It/They may be out of date or missing some packages.
 This affects the following mirror(s):
cgf
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