Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > So, if anybody wants to take a stab at setup and revamp it, feel free. >> > The only requirements are, it should still be able to utilize the >> > setup.ini file created on cygwin.com, it should still be able to work >> > the mirror list provided by cygwin.com, an

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 13:53, Andrey Repin wrote: > > So, if anybody wants to take a stab at setup and revamp it, feel free. > > The only requirements are, it should still be able to utilize the > > setup.ini file created on cygwin.com, it should still be able to work > > the mirror list provided by cygwin.com,

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> If you ask me, Setup is long overdue for a complete replacement. >> It "don't have" so many things other package managers allow, that I don't >> even >> know, where to start. Meta dependencies? Suggestions? Virtual packages? > The problem is not that we don't know

Fwd: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-26 Thread Björn Kautler
> Greetings, Bjorn Kautler! > > > But first things first, it is Bjorn or Bjoern, not Bjorn. :-) > > Apology. My current locale does not include western diacritics. Sure, that is why you can say Bjoern, which is the correct transliteration. But NOT Bjorn, that is not my name, so please stop using i

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 05:35, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Bjorn Kautler! > > > But first things first, it is Bjorn or Bjoern, not Bjorn. :-) > > Apology. My current locale does not include western diacritics. > > > Now I only wanted to update the git packages, so I selected "Keep" in > > the upper right

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bjorn Kautler! > But first things first, it is Bjorn or Bjoern, not Bjorn. :-) Apology. My current locale does not include western diacritics. > Now I only wanted to update the git packages, so I selected "Keep" in > the upper right corner, That's the worst thing you could possible d

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-25 Thread Björn Kautler
Hm, now that's interesting. But first things first, it is Björn or Bjoern, not Bjorn. :-) Now to the interesting part. If I call setup.exe like the following: setup-cygwin.exe --site ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwinports/ --site ftp://ftp.hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de/cygwin/ --only-site -

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bjorn Kautler! > I usually start setup.exe like "setup.exe -K > http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg"; and select the cygwinports mirror > and a "normal" mirror in the mirror selection page to have the > packages from both mirrors readily available, selectable and > updatable. > Unfortunat

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/25/2014 01:33 PM, Björn Kautler wrote: Hi, I usually start setup.exe like "setup.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg"; and select the cygwinports mirror and a "normal" mirror in the mirror selection page to have the packages from both mirrors readily available, selectable and updatable

setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-25 Thread Björn Kautler
Hi, I usually start setup.exe like "setup.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg"; and select the cygwinports mirror and a "normal" mirror in the mirror selection page to have the packages from both mirrors readily available, selectable and updatable. Unfortunatley, setup.exe seems to not handle