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I understand completely now that I know the mirrors operate in "pull" mode.

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 11/25/2009 04:30 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:42:45PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>>> I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and received version -65 instead from
>>> mirror.nyi.net (http).  What is wrong?
>>>
>>> .$ uname -v
>>> 2009-11-19 10:07
>>>
>>> Did I catch the download in the middle of a critical update?
>>
>> Huh?  No.  Mirrors use a pull mechanism, not a push mechanism.  If the
>> mirror doesn't have the latest version of cygwin that means it hasn't
>> pulled it from cygwin.com yet.
>
> Chris, you just beat me to this. :-)  The only thing I'd add is you 
> need to
> either be more patient 
> (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00842.html>)
> or more vigilant/exhaustive in your search.  In the vigilant/exhaustive
> category, you would have found what you were looking for with this mirror
> <http://cygwin.elite-systems.org/>.  Of course, I'm not saying this 
> mirror will
> always be the most up-to-date.  That's where the "exhaustive" part comes
> in. ;-)
>

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