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Re: New mirror checker in operation
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:25:17PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote:
|> Christopher Faylor wrote:
|>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:32:29PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote:
|>>> 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 .
|>>> 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.
|>> "master server updates"? The definitive source for the cygwin release
|>> is cygwin.com. The cygwin release directory there is updated whenever
|>> a new package is uploaded.
|>>
|>> Maybe you need to read the second paragraph again.
|> I use rsync://sourceware.org/cygwin-ftp as my retrieval location. It
|> was updated relatively quickly and there seemed no issue for this to be
|> used. Is this not correct?
|
| Maybe you're not aware that sourceware.org and cygwin.com (and
| gcc.gnu.org and sources.redhat.com and others) are the same machine?
|
| % host sourceware.org
| sourceware.org has address 209.132.176.174
| sourceware.org mail is handled by 12801 sourceware.org.
|
| % host cygwin.com
| cygwin.com has address 209.132.176.174
| cygwin.com mail is handled by 10 sourceware.org.
|
| cgf
|
Actually I figured that out right before I sent that last message. For
some reason I thought they were two different machines before. Don't
ask why. It has been setup that way for nearly two years now. Anyways
I've added a little note/reminder for myself in my crontab file that
sourceware.org = cygwin.com.
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