Re: Is there, anywhere in the world, some place where ican rsync Cygin 32 bits ?

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 30/05/2023 20:55, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2023-05-30 06:21, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 29/05/2023 23:42, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>>> On 2023-05-29 16:06, akakima via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> Does such a place exist (beside fruitbat) ?
>>>
>>> Appears the master and all mirrors have stub setup.ini and nothing else!
>>> Only private mirrors like fruitbat are likely to maintain history.
>>
>> This answer is wrong is almost every particular.
> 
> Good - nothing like a definitely wrong statement in a post to bring out 
> an illuminating correction in a reply!

No, we're not going to play that game.  Posting misinformation doesn't 
oblige me to provide a correction (because that's an easily exploitable 
infinite time sink).

Please avoid making definitive statements you don't know to be true on 
this list in future.

>> I went to a some effort to maintain an accessible archive of the last 
>> 32-bit cygwin (See [1]).
>>
>> Please don't spread misinformation.
> 
> Both the OP and myself, and likely others, missed the alternative:
> I just went back and reread it a few times, and finally got the point;
> also in the Install FAQ - I just noticed it third time thru, after 
> searching the page for "sourceware".
> 
[...]
> 
>    An incomplete list of sourceware mirrors is available at:
> 
>      https://sourceware.org/mirrors.html
> 
>    (Not all sourceware mirrors may carry the cygwin-archive mirror.)

Again, this is wrong.

sourceware mirrors by definition mirror the entire "ftp directory" from 
sourceware.