Setup patch to keep test version if test version installed

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hey guys,

On Jan 28 21:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>   https://cygwin.com/setup-test-x86.exe
>   https://cygwin.com/setup-test-x86_64.exe
> 
> These should fix the aforementioned bug I introduced, as well as another
> subtil problem when checking and unchecking the Bin/Src boxes.  If both
> boxes were deselected, the package got uninstalled without showing up in
> the "Pending" view.  I worked around that by setting the package state
> explicitely to "Uninstall" if both boxes got deselected.
> 
> This version also introduces an experimental option -m/--mirror-mode.
> 
> There's something bugging me for a long time as well.  We're running our
> own Cygwin mirror on a local Linux box.  The directory is mounted via
> NFS on my Windows boxes.  So, rather than installing from internet, I
> "Install from Local Directory", with the local directory being the
> NFS-mounted mirror directory.
> 
> This works fine, except that, after parsing setup.ini, setup hangs
> unresponsive for about 2 minutes.  Only then the chooser window opens.
> 
> It turned out that the 2 minutes are 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.
> 
> Given that the directory is a mirror in my case, the test makes only
> marginal sense.  Therefore I added the -m option which avoids most file
> system access and only checks in a border case (installed version is not
> in setup.ini).
> 
> If you're doing as I do, running a local mirror, you may welcome this
> option.  I just don't guarantee that it always works ;}  If you find a
> bug, don't hesitate to report it.

Did you test this version?  Is it ok to become the release version of
setup?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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