X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <46934269.2050601@tlinx.org> <004801c7c2d7$61f45c30$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Subject: RE: fyi - mirror prob Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:17:18 +0100 Message-ID: <005101c7c2db$7f1557c0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l6AAHSsP006845 On 10 July 2007 11:07, René Berber wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 10 July 2007 09:25, Linda Walsh wrote: >> >>> seems like the grep package on http://mirrors.kernel.org appears corrupt >>> (too short). Seems fine on another mirror. >> >> Seems fine on kernel.org to me: maybe you have local firewall / http >> proxy issues? > > One problem I've seen was that the "mirrors" (at kernel.org) are not > synchronized btw. themselves. Looking at your wget, you get 2 addresses (in > random order), the result depends on which one is used. For me, .31 works fine and .7 gives me a 404 error, because it only has the older version 2.5.1a-3. Man, that could really screw with setup.exe's head if it got setup.ini from one mirror and then tried downloading from the other! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/