From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31397 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2008 20:22:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 31383 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Sep 2008 20:22:37 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (HELO wr-out-0506.google.com) (64.233.184.229) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:21:30 +0000 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so2624691wri.2 for ; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.79.17 with SMTP id c17mr11854080agb.67.1220473286493; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thesoftwaresource.com ( [98.18.197.71]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm12748787wrh.38.2008.09.03.13.21.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:22:00 -0000 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is it my setup or the mirror page that is wrong as to the current status of a mirror X-Mailer: Virtual Access Open Source http://www.virtual-access.org/ Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <019201c90bc3$7b705f20$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> References: <019201c90bc3$7b705f20$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com From: Brian Keener X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-09/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 Dave Korn wrote: > > My install of setup on my Windows XP laptop always looks to the mirror > > sourceware.mirrors.tds.net (ftp) and ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu(ftp) for its > > updates and the web page http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html shows these > > mirror current as of 2008-08-29 13:48GMT and yet if I run a setup > > version compiled from cvs in July 2007 or a setup I compiled on > > 8/21/2008 from cvs it always tells me that the site > > sourceware.mirrors.tds.net (ftp) is not current. > > Can't reproduce. I think I found a clue and have a hunch what is happening. I checked the mirrors-lst file that was downloaded the last time I ran setup on the windows XP machine (which has been warning me about sourceware). I found these line at the end of the mirrors-lst file: # Following mirrors re-added by setup.exe to warn again about dropped urls. ftp://sourceware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/sourceware.org/cygwin;sourceware.mirro rs.tds.net;North America;Wisconsin If I remove these line then the mirror check proceeds as normal and no warning occurs. I looked at my Windows 2000 machine and found a similar line for the gatech mirror which when removed from the mirror-lst file the warning goes away in setup on that machine as well. I then left the line there and started setup and the line stays with the updated mirrors-lst file leading me to believe that setup is copying those lines each time from the old mirrors-lst file to the new. My hunch is that at some point that line got in the mirror-lst file because the mirror was out of date and then each time I get the warning dialog I respond to Yes I want to continue using the mirror and I do not check "do not warn me again". My guess is that I get the warning because the lines are there and that setup does not reaffirm that the lines need to be there. Thoughts? bk