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Subject: Re: Bad Link in Cygwin Mirrors Page--changed but why rsync dropped?
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L Anderson wrote:
> 
> On the Cygwin mirrors page "http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html", under 
> "North America: Palo Alto", the link locations are as follows:
> 

Now: "locations were as follows:"

>     ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
>     http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
>     rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> 

Now: The http and rsync links have been removed.

Question:  Why are the rsync links disappearing as Cygwin mirrors; 
especially since using rsync to mirror Cygwin is cleaner than fussing 
with either ftp or http?


Thanks,

L Anderson

> The ftp and http links both work but the rsync link gives a rsync error 
> because "sources.redhat.com" has been changed to "sourceware".  Changing 
> the rsync link to either of:
> 
>     rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> or
>     rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
> 
> works as does changing them all to:
> 
>     ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
>     http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
>     rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
> 


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