[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.864)

Tue Feb 3 20:39:00 GMT 2015

Hi folks,
A new version of Setup, release 2.864, has been uploaded to
 https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version)
 https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
Changes compared to the previous 2.859 release:
- The package choosing algorithm has been rewritten partially.
 The most visible effect is that Setup will now never downgrade a
 package. This is much more in line with the update mechanism in Linux
 package managers. For Cygwin this means, if you have an experimental
 version of a package installed and you start Setup to update your
 installation, Setup will not automatically downgrade the package to
 the current release anymore but stick to the experimental release. If
 there's a new experimental release, it will by default update to the
 new experimental release. If the experimental release became the
 current release, you'll be back to normal.
 This also fixes a bug which might have resulted in removing packages
 without visual feedback in the "Pending" view of the package selection
 dialog.
- Introduce an experimental option -m/--mirror-mode.
 If you're running a local mirror from which you're installing via the
 "Install from Local Directory" option, you might have noticed a rather
 long delay (sometimes in the range of minutes) prior to opening the
 package selection dialog with an entirely unresponsive Setup.
 This delay is spent iterating throught the full set of packages and
 testing each package and each packageversion if the underlying package
 file exists in the download directory. If the download directory is,
 in fact, a mirror, these checks don't make sense. With the -m option
 and the Download Source set to "Install from Local Directory", these
 checks are skipped, and the package selection dialog will show up
 almost instantly.
 Please note that this option is provided on a "no guarantee" basis.
 It requires a sane mirror with the packages in sync with its setup.ini
 file.
Please send bug reports, as usual, to the public mailing list
cygwin AT cygwin DOT com.
Have fun,
Corinna
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