Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/01/09/13:16:08
On 1/9/07, Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> wrote:
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> According to Morgan Gangwere on 1/9/2007 10:57 AM:
> > an _example_ of how the mirrors have been different is that I have
> > found different version numbers for all of the mirrors that host
> > X/Cygwin (a big part of what i am doing) so i cant be shure what
> > version is going to be distributed!
> >
> > am i clear at this point?
>
> No. A clear example would be listing the exact mirrors that you are
> trying to download from, and the exact version numbers of the file that
> you claim differs between those two mirrors.
as i said, i dont have my log books avail. to me. i can say that there
was a (max) variation of 3 minor versions.
>
> And keep in mind that the list of mirrors is automatically pruned - any
> mirror that is found to be more than 48 hours old is not advertised by
> setup.exe (other than the fact that setup.exe remembers the last mirror
> you used, even if that mirror went stale). So once you realize that
> various mirrors have different update schedules, they should all be within
> a day of each other. And if it really matters to have the same version
> across your entire distribution, then pick just one mirror.
>
> And since the cygwin X port is currently looking for a maintainer, I
> highly doubt you are seeing mirror discrepancies there - the collection of
> X packages has not had an update in a couple of months, so you are pretty
> much getting the latest version no matter what mirror you use, unless you
> happen to point setup.exe to a non-standard mirror that is out of date.
>
> - --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
>
> Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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this outlines my point exactly. we need to give _all_ of the mirrors
not a _48_ hour but at max a _24_ hour. and _all_ the mirrors should
have the same packages. this goes back to having _libintl8_ but not
being able to get the _libintl3_ packages.
TIDSIHD. but what we need is to have _all_ the mirrors _mirror_ each
other. does the main cygwin server have libintl8?
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Morgan gangwere
"Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M.,
Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in
the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor.
2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93.
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