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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add the last element of URL path to site chooser, if interesting.
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:54:16AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 03:54:50PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>On 06/11/2010 18:00, 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)
>>>
>>> This is great, please check in. I suspect that you're just trying a
>>> local mirror or something but if there are actually sites in the mirror
>>> list which are not proper FQDNs, please report them so that they can be
>>> fixed in the mirror database.
>>
>>Yes, you are correct. There are no sites in the mirror list which aren't
>>FQDNs. I was just fixing what happens when you add 'http://localhost/cygwin/'
>>(or some other locally-known non-FQDN) to the mirror list.
>>
>>Just to be clear, you want me to check in the whole patch, and not just that fix?
>
>Actually, on reflection, I don't see a great benefit to parsing the UFL.
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