[PATCH setup 0/2] Improve behavior after download error

[Jon Turney]

On 07/11/2017 04:28, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2017-11-06 14:49, Ken Brown wrote:
>> This is a followup to
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-11/msg00003.html.  The
>> focus of that thread was a crash that occurs on the topic/libsolv
>> branch.  Here I'm more interested in a UI issue.  Namely, I don't
>> think it's reasonable that setup goes back to the site page if the
>> user clicks Yes in response to "Download Incomplete. Try again?".
>> This is not what the message says will happen, and I'm not convinced
>> that it even works right if the user changes mirrors after being sent
>> to the site page.
> 
> Would it make more sense to drop to the package chooser page, after issuing the
> error message and advising the user to: select Back to go to the package chooser
> page, select Next to retry the downloads, or select Cancel to exit?

Do we actually report the package name for the failed download so that 
the user could make an informed change in the package chooser?

In any case, this is an incremental improvement, especially over the 
utterly mad thing we are currently doing in unattended mode.