On 22/11/2010 13:03, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 19/11/2010 17:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Nov 19 11:07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:05:15PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>> Currently, if, for example, 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)
>>>>
>>>> (Also fix the logic for identifying protocol and site name part of the URL 
>>>> to find the first '/' after a '//',
>>>> rather than the first '/' after a '.', to handle sitenames which aren't 
>>>> FQDNs correctly)
>>>>
>>>> 2010-11-06  Jon TURNEY  
>>>> <jon.turney-grjqepx9rppajuda+fbnta-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org>
>>>>
>>>>    * site.cc (init): If interesting, Show the last element of URL, as well
>>>>    as the protocol and sitename in the site chooser
>>>
>>> I like this better than my idea of showing the full URL.  Unless there
>>> are objections (Corinna?) please check in.
>>
>> No objections.  Just go ahead.
> 
> I've committed patches #1 and #2.

Oh yes, I meant to ask if there is a process for making setup snapshots.

The probability that I've broken something with all this fiddling is non-zero,
so it would be nice to get some testing, if possible.

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