Is it my setup or the mirror page that is wrong as to the current status of a mirror

Brian Keener bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com
Fri Aug 29 18:41:00 GMT 2008


My install of setup on my Windows XP laptop always looks to the mirror 
sourceware.mirrors.tds.net (ftp) and ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu(ftp) for its 
updates and the web page http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html shows these 
mirror current as of 2008-08-29 13:48GMT and yet if I run a setup 
version compiled from cvs in July 2007 or a setup I compiled on 
8/21/2008 from cvs it always tells me that the site 
sourceware.mirrors.tds.net (ftp) is not current.  I also just 
downloaded the version at cygwin.com and it also says that site is not 
current.  Weird thing is this machine (Windows XP) also uses the gatech 
site as I mentioned and I don't get warned about it but....  On another 
machine (Windows 2000) which only uses the gatech site 
ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu(ftp) I do get warned about gatech.

I seem to recall something about the mirror logic changing but I'm 
sure. Anyone else noticed anything.

bk





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