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Re: Multiple pending setup patches
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Buzz wrote:
> Op Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:30:34 -0400 (EDT) schreef Igor Pechtchanski:
> : On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> :
> : > Brian Dessent wrote:
> : >
> : >> Except, from the standpoint of setup there is no way to distinguish the
> : >> following two scenarios:
> : >
> : > That is, unless you meant "mirror that was manually added *this
> : > session*", whereas I was interpreting it to be "user manually entered a
> : > non-official mirror at some point in the past and continues to use it
> : > each time they run setup." So we could in fact detect if the user typed
> : > or pasted something into the edit box and not prompt; but if they then
> : > ran setup again and didn't make any changes they would get the prompt
> : > because at that point setup cannot differentiate anymore.
> :
> : Brian,
> :
> : You are assuming that the format of the last-mirror file is fixed and
> : won't change. We could keep the fact that the user typed in the mirror
> : URL as opposed to clicking on one of the official ones...
> : Igor
>
> Would it not be possible to use the cached mirror-list to
> differentiate the two cases? (Only warn if a mirror is used which is
> in cache but not in new list. Keep the old mirror in the cache if
> the user wants to be warned again.)
>
> (I know, SHTDI.)
a) the cached mirror-list was only introduced recently,
b) the cached mirror-list is overwritten every time a successful
connection is established with sourceware.org,
c) this kind of information belongs in last-mirror, IMO, and
d) you said it: SHTDI.
Igor
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