X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: MD5s of setup.exe on mirrors. References: <5qd5179mvu DOT fsf AT hod DOT lan DOT m-e-leypold DOT de> <4644CB03 DOT 9070707 AT determina DOT com> <063001c7947a$3312cea0$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <46461FA2 DOT E6EFA773 AT dessent DOT net> <20070513161110 DOT GA5651 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> From: "Markus E.L." Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 22:23:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070513161110.GA5651@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (Christopher Faylor's message of "Sun, 13 May 2007 12:11:10 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Christopher Faylor writes: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:13:58PM +0200, ls-cygwin-2006 wrote: >>Brian Dessent writes: >> >>> ls-cygwin-2006 AT xxxxxxxxxxx DOT xx wrote: >>> >>>> Please anyone touch setup.exe? If the mirrors pick it up then we (you! >>>> :) know that it is, somehow, a time stamping issue. The issue can >>>> probably not be cleared up right now and is probably not worth the >>>> trouble, but perhaps it can be just fixed. >>> >>> I've touched the setup.exe on cygwin.com. >> >>Thanks Brian. It seems to work: Not all mirrors have picked up the >>change yet, but those that have and those which I checke are now >>carrying the executable from ftp.cygwin.com. >> >>> I think you should email the hostmaster of ftp.mirror.ac.uk if the >>> one byte discrepancy continues because it would indicate a flaw in >>> their mirroring process. >> >>Thankfully I'm spared to argue that, but the executable was wrong at >>all mirrors I checked, not only ftp.mirror.ac.uk. That would suggests >>a common cause, very probably something at the master site (which is >>ftp.cygwin.com, isn't it?). Whatever -- I can't see me writing the >>host masters of some 20 or 30 mirrors to point them to an error that >>was probably upstream. >> >>(Or did I somehow miss the significance of ftp.mirror.ac.uk in that >>process?) >> >>But thankfully that is academic now: > > It was actually all academic before since: 1) there was nothing wrong > with the setup.exe on the mirrors and 2) people shouldn't have been > running setup.exe from the mirrors to begin with. That' why, (a) I was not concerned about setup.exe at the mirrors being "wrong" but rather about the discrepancy between setup.exe's md5sum and the sums listed in the accompanying md5.sum. I feared, it might irritate people actually browsing the mirrors. But (b) since you haven't got any complaints for the last 20 months or so (the time since the discrepancy exists), you're probably even got your wish granted already: Nobody is taking setup.exe from the mirrors (or they don't care for the md5sums). > This really does not, IMO, deserve as much attention as has been given > here. > >>PS: Brian, I've been living under the impression that we are under the >> rule not to include cleartext email addresses in quotes? Is that >> still so and would you, please, not burn my address further? > > Your From: is not formatted to include a name so I suspect that Brian, > like I (and Corinna, FWIW), has an email client which uses the email > address in that case. I understand. I was not aware of the existence of such clients, instead assumed they would provide a mangling function like abc AT xy DOT z -> abc AT xy DOT z. Good to know I can do something to make that work -> better. Regards -- Markus -- 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/