[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-3297660 ] mingw-get (upgrade): failed download does not revoke remove

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Bugs item #3297660, was opened at 2011-05-04 20:02
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Category: MinGW Installer
Group: None
Status: Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 9
Private: No
Submitted By: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Assigned to: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Summary: mingw-get (upgrade): failed download does not revoke remove 

Initial Comment:
See original report by Chris Sutcliffe, at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel/4262

I found a bug in mingw-get in that if an upgrade fails to download,
mingw-get will still proceed with removing the package.  Running
mingw-get-info I noticed that my w32api was out of date, so I did:

mingw-get update
mingw-get upgrade w32api

for some reason, mingw-get doesn't want to download the file (even
though the direct link works when I copied it to a browser):

mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** Get package:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/w32api-3.17-2-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma?download:
download failed
mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** Get package:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/w32api-3.17-2-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma?download:
download failed

The upgrade process proceed to remove the '-1' release and failed to
install the '-2' release because it failed to download.



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Comment By: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Date: 2011-05-20 12:33

Message:
The problem you report has caused modification in some fashion in 
the official CVS for the given package.  The w32api and 
mingw-runtime official CVS reside in the winsup CVS directory tree for
Cygwin.  Those package CVS trees are periodically merged into 
the MinGW CVS tree.  If you still find problems then please open a 
new report.

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Comment By: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Date: 2011-05-08 19:08

Message:
Please test the attached replacement mingw-get-0.dll; it still doesn't
check for possibly broken dependencies, but it should now refuse to remove
an existing package during upgrade, if the replacement package failed to
download, (and it should complain more appropriately when attempting to
install a package which similarly failed to download).  It should also
correct the issue reported on ticket
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3295526&group_id=2435&atid=102435

Note that this build also attempts, more aggressively, to retry failing
downloads.  I've compiled it with fairly verbose tracing of internet
requests.  I'm undecided whether or not to leave it in this format for
release, or to turn that option off and direct users here for the more
verbose build, if they are willing to help with debugging.  What do you
think?

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