On 29/11/2010 12:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 26 13:48, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> Currently, for example, if I manually add the site >> http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwinports/ >> to setup's mirror list, I get two indistinguishable entries named >> http://mirrors.kernel.org. >> >> Furthermore, because the code to ensure the site just added is selected uses >> the string inside the list control >> to locate elements, we end up with a random one of those two >> indistinguishable entries selected (usually the >> previously existing one). >> >> This problem also prevents the selected sites being correctly saved and >> restored for the next setup run. >> >> So, to make the site chooser list entries unique and distinguishable, add >> the last element of the URL path to >> the site chooser, if it exists and isn't 'cygwin' (or some other >> alternatives used by current mirrors) > > That sounds a bit problematic. So two URLs on the same machine might > again end up as the same string, undistinguishable, just because they > both end in the same directory name?
Yes, this is true, but currently *any* two URLs on the same host are indistinguishable. > And there are (right now) four > such directory names, which are treated identically. I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are referring to here. > Don't get me wrong. It's certainly better than what we have today, > and the full URL is almost unreadable. Nevertheless, I'd be more happy > with a solution which fixes this problem even for such border cases... Back to the bikeshed, then :-) If we were starting from scratch, how would this work?
