Cygwin mirrors synchronisation problem?
Huijing Zhou
hj@N.O.S.P.A.M.cip.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de
Tue May 28 23:22:00 GMT 2002
> Up through Setup-2.243 I receive that error if I select the source for
> "setup: The Cygwin Net Distribution installer and updater program." in
> category Net. No select, no error. As for the problem of mirror
> synchronization, I suspect you will always find that mirror sites are
> synchronized on different schedules. If you have observed that one mirror
> is synchronized more frequently, then by all means, use it.
Actually I did not select _any_ source package, only binaries. So
obviously I got a different error than you.
As for the synchronisation, I think I just misunderstood the logistics
of the mirrors. Previously I thought the sites were centerally managed
by the Cygwin project using some coordinated mirroring machanism, while
now, after some reading, I believe the mirror sites are totally
autonomous which could be updated hourly, daily, weekly, or not at all!
So, as you hinted, I will just use the Esslingen server since it's
updated more frequently, and I do recommand it to all other european
users, especially those within the German Research Network (DFN).
Huijing
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Huijing Zhou <hj@cip.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de>
CIP Computer Lab, Faculty of Economics
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
http://www2.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de
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