Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/01/13/16:18:06
Chris,
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:34:16PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
>>Okay, I decided that someone needs to check for out-dated mirrors and
>>that someone is just going to have to be me.
>
>
> If you take a close look at the mirrors.html page, you'll see that the
> list is polled on a regular basis to maintain currency. If there are
> out-of-date sites, that would indicate that there was a problem with the
> polling, which, in fact, there was. A perl module update apparently
> broke checking of http mirrors. This has been corrected.
Heh... I suspected that it was scripted, but the fact that there was a
site that was six months out of date reversed my suspicion... I didn't
think that anyone would neglect to run a script for six months. :)
> So thanks for the roundabout heads up on the problem but you could have
> saved yourself some work by just reporting the problem.
Ah, it only took a minute or two. Now, if I had reported a list of
mirrors that failed to connect it would have taken much more time.
> I've changed the wording on the web site to be slightly clearer that
> this page is autogenerated.
Cool, thanks. I have been with the project three years now and I never
noticed that it was autogenerated :)
Harold
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