I am running a new mirror checker on the cygwin web site. It should do a much better job of finding valid mirrors. The mirror check process now runs multiple times a day validating that files on the mirrors are up to date.
There is still a hole between the time where package maintainer updates a package on the main cygwin site and the mirror grabs the package. So we still can't guarantee that the mirror list contains 100% accurate data. Hopefully we won't have situations where mirrors are just garbage now, however. On closer inspection of the old mirror checker, I found a few cases where it would interpret information incorrectly when it was scanning a mirror for valid files, leaving the mirror list in an incorrect state. The new mirror checker returns better errors so I was actually able to resurrect a few mirrors which had moved the location of the cygwin mirror directory on their site. There are also a few mirrors which inexplicably only contain a subset of the cygwin release directory. I guess I'll eventually just remove them from the master list entirely. If you think there are problems with the new list please continue to send them here. If you register as a new mirror please send email to sourcemaster . 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/
