Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/06/18/13:27:25
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:25:17PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:32:29PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote:
>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>I am running a new mirror checker on the cygwin web site. It should do
>>>>a much better job of finding valid mirrors. The mirror check process
>>>>now runs multiple times a day validating that files on the mirrors are
>>>>up to date.
>>>>
>>>>There is still a hole between the time where package maintainer updates
>>>>a package on the main cygwin site and the mirror grabs the package. So
>>>>we still can't guarantee that the mirror list contains 100% accurate
>>>>data. Hopefully we won't have situations where mirrors are just
>>>>garbage now, however. On closer inspection of the old mirror checker,
>>>>I found a few cases where it would interpret information incorrectly
>>>>when it was scanning a mirror for valid files, leaving the mirror list
>>>>in an incorrect state.
>>>>
>>>>The new mirror checker returns better errors so I was actually able to
>>>>resurrect a few mirrors which had moved the location of the cygwin
>>>>mirror directory on their site. There are also a few mirrors which
>>>>inexplicably only contain a subset of the cygwin release directory. I
>>>>guess I'll eventually just remove them from the master list entirely.
>>>>
>>>>If you think there are problems with the new list please continue to
>>>>send them here. If you register as a new mirror please send email to
>>>>sourcemaster .
>>>Just curious but is there a typical time when the master server
>>>updates? ~ This way I may be able to synchronize my mirror as closely
>>>as possible to it as soon as possible. As of right now the server
>>>updates 9AM UTC every day.
>>
>>"master server updates"? The definitive source for the cygwin release
>>is cygwin.com. The cygwin release directory there is updated whenever
>>a new package is uploaded.
>>
>>Maybe you need to read the second paragraph again.
>
>I use rsync://sourceware.org/cygwin-ftp as my retrieval location. It
>was updated relatively quickly and there seemed no issue for this to be
>used. Is this not correct?
Maybe you're not aware that sourceware.org and cygwin.com (and
gcc.gnu.org and sources.redhat.com and others) are the same machine?
% host sourceware.org
sourceware.org has address 209.132.176.174
sourceware.org mail is handled by 12801 sourceware.org.
% host cygwin.com
cygwin.com has address 209.132.176.174
cygwin.com mail is handled by 10 sourceware.org.
cgf
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