HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Dec 23 18:00:00 GMT 2009


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:56:23PM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote:
>Well I use my own mirror too so I wanted to get it up to date anyways.
> The warning does come up when the mirror is not on the list so that
>is not the issue.

Are you saying that you actually *saw* the message?  In that case, you
ignore the warning at your peril.

>I think it is very possible for someone to click yes anyways and end up
>downgrading their install by accident.

Yes, I'm aware of the fact that people do stupid things.  I do read the
Cygwin mailing list, after all.

cgf

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