On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:25:17PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:32:29PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote: >>>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>>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 . >>>Just curious but is there a typical time when the master server >>>updates? ~ This way I may be able to synchronize my mirror as closely >>>as possible to it as soon as possible. As of right now the server >>>updates 9AM UTC every day. >> >>"master server updates"? The definitive source for the cygwin release >>is cygwin.com. The cygwin release directory there is updated whenever >>a new package is uploaded. >> >>Maybe you need to read the second paragraph again. > >I use rsync://sourceware.org/cygwin-ftp as my retrieval location. It >was updated relatively quickly and there seemed no issue for this to be >used. Is this not correct?
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