Most mirrors don't have md5.sum for setup.exe

Larry Hall cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Jan 23 20:55:00 GMT 2004


Sounds like something that's worthwhile to report to the 
site maintainer(s).

Larry


At 01:45 PM 1/23/2004, Jim Kleckner you wrote:

>Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>>Jim Kleckner wrote:
>>
>>>I noticed that the mirror site that I am using
>>>via rsync:
>>>  rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
>>>lost the md5.sum file some time ago (2-3 months?).
>
>
>*at the top level*
>
>
>>>An informal and incomplete check of sites from
>>>  http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
>>>
>>>indicates these sites have the md5.sum file:
>>>  http://www.online-mirror.org/cygwin/
>>>  http://cygwin.get-software.com/
>
>
>http://cygwin.get-software.com/md5.sum
>
>
>>>and these sites do not have the md5.sum file:
>>>  http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
>>>  http://cygwin.thehostedbox.com/
>>>  http://sigunix.cwru.edu/pub/cygwin/ftp/
>>>  http://mirrors.theonlinerecordstore.com/cygwin/
>>>  http://sources-redhat.mirrors.redwire.net/cygwin/
>>>  http://cygwin.matrix.com.br/
>>>  http://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/cygwin/
>>>  http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/cygwin.com/
>>>
>>>Should it be at every site?
>>I don't understand what you mean by "the" md5.sum file.  There is a md5
>>file for every package.  If you open
>><http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/> and traverse into
>>the release subdirectory and look at any package dir, there is a md5.sum
>>file with timestamp corresponding to the same date as the packages.  In
>>other words, I don't see anything wrong.
>>Brian
>
>Yes, I know that.
>
>The original message could have had the phrase
>"at the top level" though I thought, obviously
>incorrectly, that the explicit path to the
>containing directory would be clear.
>
>Click on this link to see the existing file:
>  http://cygwin.get-software.com/md5.sum
>
>or this one to see that it is missing:
>  http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/md5.sum
>
>This is the md5.sum file for setup.exe, setup.ini etc.
>
>Note that the file mod times are "fresh" in those
>sites that have it.
>
>Jim
>
>
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