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Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.22-1 -- Mirrors question


The cygwin.com homepage has two news items "New Cygwin DLL 1.3.21-1
release", probably a typo.

"Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz at cris dot com> wrote in message
news:5 dot 2 dot 0 dot 9 dot 2 dot 20030318081348 dot 02713a98 at pop3 dot cris dot com dot  dot  dot 
> Rick,
>
> Mirrors pull, they don't push. Apart from allowing the mirror sites
> access to the master file repository at cygwin.com, they're completely
> out of the control of anyone at Redhat or on the Cygwin team.
>
> My personal recommendation is to pick a single mirror (based on
> reliability!) and then exercise patience. I use the Argonne mirror.
> They're not the most prompt to update, but they're pretty reliable.
>
> Randall Schulz
>
>
> At 08:08 2003-03-18, Rick Owen wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >
> >I've only been on the list for a short time.  I have noticed that some
mirrors
> >are more quickly updated than others.  Which mirrors will most likely
contain
> >the updates most quickly?  Generally after I receive an update notice on
the
> >announce list I have to wait for a day or two before I see it.  Is that
just
> >the way it is? or are there some mirrors that will have the updates
> >immediately?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Rick.
>
>




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