-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor wrote: | 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? | | Maybe you're not aware that sourceware.org and cygwin.com (and | gcc.gnu.org and sources.redhat.com and others) are the same machine? | | % host sourceware.org | sourceware.org has address 209.132.176.174 | sourceware.org mail is handled by 12801 sourceware.org. | | % host cygwin.com | cygwin.com has address 209.132.176.174 | cygwin.com mail is handled by 10 sourceware.org. | | cgf |
Actually I figured that out right before I sent that last message. For some reason I thought they were two different machines before. Don't ask why. It has been setup that way for nearly two years now. Anyways I've added a little note/reminder for myself in my crontab file that sourceware.org = cygwin.com. - -- Robert Pendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A perfect world is one of chaos." Thawte Web of Trust Notary CAcert Assurer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIWUk/s1pR2j1qW+sRAo7vAJ0bYMLow4QXUABsx4G0np6nscmzvQCeL8XU ggTWF7cqkBTHnsyO4YU81pQ= =2wH3 -----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/
