[PATCH setup 0/4] Distinguish between user URLs and cygwin mirrors in UI

[Brian Inglis]

On 2017-12-03 08:22, Ken Brown wrote:
> This is a followup to
> 
>   https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-04/msg00014.html .
> 
> In that message Jon suggested splitting site selection into two pages,
> one for cygwin.com mirrors and one for additional user URLs.  The
> latter would be visible only if the user had previously checked a
> suitable checkbox.
> 
> I attempted to implement this but found it to be too complicated.
> This patch series implements a variant of that suggestion.  There is
> still only one site selection page, but it now has a checkbox "Allow
> sites that are not cygwin.com mirrors".  The box is initially
> unchecked unless the "last-mirror" user setting in setup.rc contains a
> non-mirror.

Will this interfere with running setup -gM using an "unofficial" last-mirror
to skip to the package upgrade/selection page?

There are a bunch of distro mirrors that are not "official"/listed publicly:
many unis and local UUGs mirror distros on publicly accessible hosts, that are
not on distros' mirror lists, probably because they don't want any extra admin,
support, or network load.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada