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 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:50:47 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? Message-ID: <20040903015047.GB588@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040903014127 DOT 6FBDC8454B AT pessard DOT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040903014127.6FBDC8454B@pessard.research.canon.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:41:27AM +1000, luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au wrote: >SysAdmin here are coming to object to Cygwin - they say they get only >slightly fewer support requests for Cygwin than they do for Exchange. >*Usually* they can solve the problem. They only call me in for hairier >problems (like this "incomplete download" that was affecting another >user here, which lead me to my current sad adventure). If cygwin isn't meeting your needs, you can return it and we'll cheerfully refund all of your money. >Failing that, is there something we can run on the Unix host to check >that our mirror is correct? Can we perform the same md5sum check that >setup does? Of course. Just use the md5sum files that are in each directory. >Any advice? Even just a suggestion of an rsync mirror that is >currently known to be good, and which has moderately good bandwidth? There is no way that you can know that a mirror is "good". You may be downloading information from it while it is in the middle of downloading from the main site and so you may have a setup.ini that does not reflect what's on your disk. Some files may be updated while others aren't. However, since you raise the issue of md5sums, it's hard to see how your mirror could be bad and not have setup.exe complain about an incorrect md5. cgf -- 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/