gcc4-core PACKAGE BUG

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sat Aug 14 19:20:00 GMT 2010


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 01:15:20PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>On 08/14/2010 01:13 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 08:05:00PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> So I really don't think it's worth the end-user's while in this
>>> instance, but I'd like to hear what Corinna and cgf think before I
>>> proceed.
>> 
>> I'm with you on this, Dave.  Your reasonsing seems right to me.  I don't
>> normally like to make silent changes to existing packages but in this
>> case it seems like the least intrusive way to fix the problem.
>> 
>> I wouldn't even announce the change since that would probably generate
>> some confusion.
>
>My only worry now is if any mirrors will have a stale checksum that
>doesn't correspond to the new tarball.  But I'm convinced that it's
>worth trying the silent upgrade, now.

That's a good point.  Dave, when you make the change, please remove any
md5.sum in that directory.  That will force the file to be regenerated
and upset will do the right thing if it isn't there.

cgf



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