RE: Is it my setup or the mirror page that is wrong as to the current status of a mirror [I think its setup]

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

Brian Keener wrote on 09 September 2008 17:17:

> Dave or others,
> 
> Could someone check my diagnoses on this and my patch as shown in
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-09/msg00015.html
> and see if you concur with my findings.  I didn't post this to patches as
> I wanted confirmation and I was sure the my code needed checking and
> there was probably a better way.

  I think your diagnosis is correct; I haven't had time to look at the patch
owing to pressure of gcc work, but that's about to get to a point where I can
stop for a bit and wait for a sufficient pile of bug reports to pile up and
I'll have time to do it during the rest of the week.


> 
> What I found on this was that when a mirror is found to be out of date it
> is marked at the end of the mirrors-lst file as follows:

  ... snip ... 

> Just curious if I was right or not.

  Very very likely, but a) I'm not familiar with that bit of the code and
don't know how it works yet, b) I'd really like to have the time to reproduce
the bug on a test rig and then verify your diagnosis and test your patch.

  Thanks for your patience; I may be slow but I'll get there in the end.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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