Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/16/2017 9:40 AM, Steven Penny wrote: you presented a use case where you were creating custom archives, then putting them in local package directory, then not updating setup.ini. wait no, that was Ken Actually that's not what I said. You jumped to a conclusion based on an admittedly sk

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-16 Thread Steven Penny
On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:50:56, Vince Rice wrote: No, you never need any opinion that is in conflict with yours. I'm not going to argue with you for a variety of reasons, not least because the decision is not yours. You have shown you don't care what anyone else thinks on this or any other issue, a

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-15 Thread Vince Rice
> On Dec 16, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:50:44, Vince Rice wrote: >> It's my computer. I don't want setup (or anything else) replacing files on it >> it doesn't know about without at least asking whether that's what I want it >> to >> do. Setup's current beha

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-15 Thread Frank Redeker
Am 16.12.2017 um 05:00 schrieb Steven Penny: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:50:44, Vince Rice wrote: >> It's my computer. I don't want setup (or anything else) replacing >> files on it >> it doesn't know about without at least asking whether that's what I >> want it to >> do. Setup's current behavior is

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-15 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:50:44, Vince Rice wrote: It's my computer. I don't want setup (or anything else) replacing files on it it doesn't know about without at least asking whether that's what I want it to do. Setup's current behavior is exactly what it should be, IMO. If, as has been mentioned, s

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-15 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-12-14 12:57, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/14/2017 2:46 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> This is a followup to the discussion started here: >>>     https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-12/msg00088.html >>> When setup is preparing to download files and it finds a corrupt copy in >>> the local cache, it i

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Ken Brown! > On 12/14/2017 2:46 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Ken Brown! >> >>> This is a followup to the discussion started here: >> >>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-12/msg00088.html >> >>> When setup is preparing to download files and it finds a corrupt copy in >>>

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-14 Thread Vince Rice
> On Dec 15, 2017, at 7:33 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:57:14, Ken Brown wrote: >> And, as I said, it happens when setup is *preparing* to download files and >> finds a corrupt copy already present in the local cache. In that context, >> setup has no idea where the file came

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-14 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:57:14, Ken Brown wrote: And, as I said, it happens when setup is *preparing* to download files and finds a corrupt copy already present in the local cache. In that context, setup has no idea where the file came from. the point is, *it doesnt matter*. it is not and shouldn

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/14/2017 2:46 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Ken Brown! This is a followup to the discussion started here: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-12/msg00088.html When setup is preparing to download files and it finds a corrupt copy in the local cache, it issues a fatal error mess

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-14 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Ken Brown! > This is a followup to the discussion started here: >https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-12/msg00088.html > When setup is preparing to download files and it finds a corrupt copy in > the local cache, it issues a fatal error message telling the user to > remove the corr

Re: setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-13 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 13.12.2017 um 14:28 schrieb Ken Brown: When setup is preparing to download files and it finds a corrupt copy in the local cache, it issues a fatal error message telling the user to remove the corrupt file and retry.  Steven said that setup should silently delete the corrupt file, while I ar

setup's response to a "corrupt local copy"

2017-12-13 Thread Ken Brown
This is a followup to the discussion started here: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-12/msg00088.html When setup is preparing to download files and it finds a corrupt copy in the local cache, it issues a fatal error message telling the user to remove the corrupt file and retry. Steven said