----Original Message---- >From: Brian Dessent >Sent: 27 June 2005 18:50
> Dave Korn wrote: > >>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >> Mangled attributions. I wrote this bit. > > I was replying to both of you, and quoting you through Igor's quote. That's pretty much the textbook definition of mangling an attribution! >> So, if it doesn't exist anymore, how do we workaround a package >> validation failure exception? > > Essentially the operation of setup.exe now is as if --no-md5 was always > passed on the command line. Previously there were two types of MD5 > check, one that checked the entire local package directory (if you > select 'install from local dir') and a second that checks each package > before installing it. This meant unnecessary double-checking of > packages you were about to install from a local dir, and unnecessary > checking of packages you had no intent to install. The operation of the > second kind (which was always unaffected by --no-md5) remains the same. > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps-cvs/2005-q2/msg00036.html > > Brian Oh! Because the message hasn't changed I thought it was an md5 failure; now I see it's an expected-size-check failure. Alas, there is still a problem, because before it was possible to work around with a commandline option, and now it isn't, but requires delving into the local download dir and messing with stuff. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
