Re: New mirror checker in operation

[Robert Pendell <shinji+gmane at elite-systems dot org>]

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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 .
|
| cgf
|

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.

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