X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Message-ID: <4e41f5c20701091014m2405fc87h38c105411f548eba@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:14:43 -0700
From: "Morgan Gangwere" <0 DOT fractalus AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Fw: help win winxp install
In-Reply-To: <45A3D91D.2090001@byu.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <4e41f5c20701081705p28300579l2ae1de77b387edc8 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> 	 <037901c733d8$7ef5d0e0$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> 	 <20070109120625 DOT GA4982 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> 	 <4e41f5c20701090957h55ea0a82pd18fc95c179bebdb AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> 	 <45A3D91D DOT 2090001 AT byu DOT net>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On 1/9/07, Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> According to Morgan Gangwere on 1/9/2007 10:57 AM:
> > an _example_ of how the mirrors have been different is that I have
> > found different version numbers for all of the mirrors that host
> > X/Cygwin (a big part of what i am doing) so i cant be shure what
> > version is going to be distributed!
> >
> > am i clear at this point?
>
> No.  A clear example would be listing the exact mirrors that you are
> trying to download from, and the exact version numbers of the file that
> you claim differs between those two mirrors.

as i said, i dont have my log books avail. to me. i can say that there
was a (max) variation of 3 minor versions.

>
> And keep in mind that the list of mirrors is automatically pruned - any
> mirror that is found to be more than 48 hours old is not advertised by
> setup.exe (other than the fact that setup.exe remembers the last mirror
> you used, even if that mirror went stale).  So once you realize that
> various mirrors have different update schedules, they should all be within
> a day of each other.  And if it really matters to have the same version
> across your entire distribution, then pick just one mirror.
>
> And since the cygwin X port is currently looking for a maintainer, I
> highly doubt you are seeing mirror discrepancies there - the collection of
> X packages has not had an update in a couple of months, so you are pretty
> much getting the latest version no matter what mirror you use, unless you
> happen to point setup.exe to a non-standard mirror that is out of date.
>

> - --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
>
> Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin)
> Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>
> iD8DBQFFo9kd84KuGfSFAYARAhTmAKDOuEIalAlMY3CU6Fr21Op6urd2OQCgq+tP
> 5YDsw9bJrtF11Za6+afKu/w=
> =+DHK
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> --
> 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/
>
>

this outlines my point exactly. we need to give _all_ of the mirrors
not a _48_ hour but at max a _24_ hour. and _all_ the mirrors should
have the same packages. this goes back to having _libintl8_ but not
being able to get the _libintl3_ packages.

TIDSIHD. but what we need is to have _all_ the mirrors _mirror_ each
other. does the main cygwin server have libintl8?
-- 
Morgan gangwere

"Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M.,
Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in
the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor.
2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93.

--
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/