Setup patch to keep test version if test version installed

[Ken Brown]

On 2/3/2015 10:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  3 08:04, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 2/3/2015 6:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> It works fine for me.
>
> Nice.  Are you a potential user of the -m option?

No, so I couldn't test that.  But it seems that others have tested it by now.

Ken