Re: Most mirrors don't have md5.sum for setup.exe

[Jim Kleckner <jek-cygwin at kleckner dot net>]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> Jim Kleckner wrote:
>
> > I noticed that the mirror site that I am using
> > via rsync:
> >   rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> > lost the md5.sum file some time ago (2-3 months?).


*at the top level*


> > An informal and incomplete check of sites from
> >   http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
> >
> > indicates these sites have the md5.sum file:
> >   http://www.online-mirror.org/cygwin/
> >   http://cygwin.get-software.com/


http://cygwin.get-software.com/md5.sum


> > and these sites do not have the md5.sum file:
> >   http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> >   http://cygwin.thehostedbox.com/
> >   http://sigunix.cwru.edu/pub/cygwin/ftp/
> >   http://mirrors.theonlinerecordstore.com/cygwin/
> >   http://sources-redhat.mirrors.redwire.net/cygwin/
> >   http://cygwin.matrix.com.br/
> >   http://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/cygwin/
> >   http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/cygwin.com/
> >
> > Should it be at every site?
>
> I don't understand what you mean by "the" md5.sum file.  There is a md5
> file for every package.  If you open
> <http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/> and traverse into
> the release subdirectory and look at any package dir, there is a md5.sum
> file with timestamp corresponding to the same date as the packages.  In
> other words, I don't see anything wrong.
>
> Brian

Yes, I know that.

The original message could have had the phrase
"at the top level" though I thought, obviously
incorrectly, that the explicit path to the
containing directory would be clear.

Click on this link to see the existing file:
  http://cygwin.get-software.com/md5.sum

or this one to see that it is missing:
  http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/md5.sum

This is the md5.sum file for setup.exe, setup.ini etc.

Note that the file mod times are "fresh" in those
sites that have it.

Jim


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