Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <4004606D.70807@msu.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:17:33 -0500 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Complete list of out-of-date mirrors References: <40043A28 DOT 3010501 AT msu DOT edu> <20040113211216 DOT GA9333 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20040113211216.GA9333@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 out-of-date sites, that would indicate that there was a problem with the 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 I suspected that it was scripted, but the fact that there was a site that was six months out of date reversed my suspicion...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 -- 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/