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RE: fyi - mirror prob
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 10 July 2007 19:40, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> > Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> >> it also periodically gave a "message
> >> saying it is no longer in the list of Cygwin mirrors", as report
> >> for mirrors.kernel.org by René Berber.
> > ---
> > Is the message that it is no longer in the list of Cygwin mirrors
> > from "setup.exe"? How does it know/Where does it get it's information?
>
> It compares the live version of http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst with the
> one it cached in /etc/setup/mirrors-lst last time it was running.
Umm, not quite. The cached version is only used if the mirror list is not
available -- otherwise it's simply overwritten.
The stale mirror check happens only for the mirrors in
/etc/setup/last-mirror (i.e., those you install stuff from). If one of
the currently *selected* mirrors is not in the freshly downloaded (or
cached) mirrors.lst, setup issues a warning.
Igor
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