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From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
To: "Underwood, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca>,
   "'Stephan Mueller'" <smueller@microsoft.com>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Perennial problem with setup
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:13:10 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Underwood, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca>
To: "'Stephan Mueller'" <smueller@microsoft.com>; "Underwood, Jonathan"
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 5:33 AM


> In fact, it actually appears to be a mirror site dependent thing.
> mirrors.rcn.net causes the reported fail, whereas using ftp.mirror.ac.uk
> worked fine. I also noticed that many packages are much more up to date at
> ftp.mirror.ac.uk than at mirrors.rcn.net, which i found surprising.

Right. Again, this is a reason to choose *both* sites in your mirror list.

Rob


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