On Mar 9 12:40, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 29 November 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? And there are (right now) four > > such directory names, which are treated identically. > > > > 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... > > In the apparent absence of further work on this, it would be nice to > see Jon's patch going in anyway, which most importantly addresses the > issue for Cygwin Ports mirrors, without making anything worse.
Jon, are you still working on a different version? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
