On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:05:13PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote: >Currently, when two mirrors offer different versions of a package for a >stability >level, the one from the setup.ini with the latest timestamp is chosen. This >works >adequately when the mirrors are exactly that, so the one which has been >updated most >recently has the most up-to-date version for all packages. But this makes it >difficult >to have an overlay, a site which offers updated versions of a subset of >packages, >as there's no way to reliably ensure setup selects those updated versions >(without >massaging the timestamps in the setup.ini files after downloading them) > >So, instead of comparing the setup.ini timestamps, compare the package version >numbers >to determine which package is most recent. > >This shouldn't change the current behaviour in the simple case where only one >mirror >is selected (provided no packages have negative version numbers).
I'm not against this idea but I'd like to see what others think about this. I know that cygwinports and other sites use setup.exe for their own purposes but setup.exe was never really intended (Red Hat itself not withstanding) to be used as anything other than a mechanism for installing the cygwin distribution. So, while, again, I am not against this idea, I'd like to see what others think about this. It doesn't seem like we'd lose any functionality if we adopted this change but I may be missing something. cgf
