Multiple pending setup patches

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > Except, from the standpoint of setup there is no way to distinguish the
> > following two scenarios:
>
> That is, unless you meant "mirror that was manually added *this
> session*", whereas I was interpreting it to be "user manually entered a
> non-official mirror at some point in the past and continues to use it
> each time they run setup."  So we could in fact detect if the user typed
> or pasted something into the edit box and not prompt; but if they then
> ran setup again and didn't make any changes they would get the prompt
> because at that point setup cannot differentiate anymore.

Brian,

You are assuming that the format of the last-mirror file is fixed and
won't change.  We could keep the fact that the user typed in the mirror
URL as opposed to clicking on one of the official ones...
	Igor
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