Re: MD5s of setup.exe on mirrors.

[ls-cygwin-2006 at m-e-leypold dot de]

Brian Dessent writes:

> ls-cygwin-2006@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx wrote:
>
>> Please anyone touch setup.exe? If the mirrors pick it up then we (you!
>> :) know that it is, somehow, a time stamping issue. The issue can
>> probably not be cleared up right now and is probably not worth the
>> trouble, but perhaps it can be just fixed.
>
> I've touched the setup.exe on cygwin.com.  

Thanks Brian. It seems to work: Not all mirrors have picked up the
change yet, but those that have and those which I checke are now
carrying the executable from ftp.cygwin.com.

> I think you should email the hostmaster of ftp.mirror.ac.uk if the
> one byte discrepancy continues because it would indicate a flaw in
> their mirroring process.

Thankfully I'm spared to argue that, but the executable was wrong at
all mirrors I checked, not only ftp.mirror.ac.uk. That would suggests
a common cause, very probably something at the master site (which is
ftp.cygwin.com, isn't it?). Whatever -- I can't see me writing the
host masters of some 20 or 30 mirrors to point them to an error that
was probably upstream.

(Or did I somehow miss the significance of ftp.mirror.ac.uk in that
process?)

But thankfully that is academic now: I expect the other mirrors to
pick up the changes within the next days and will perhaps actually
write to those that don't (esp. if they are those that I use :-),
because that would really indicate breakage in those mirrors.

Regards -- Markus


PS: Brian, I've been living under the impression that we are under the
    rule not to include cleartext email addresses in quotes? Is that
    still so and would you, please, not burn my address further?

    (And yes I know I might not have stuck to that rule in all cases
     myself within the last 2 days, my apologies: I have to remove the
     addresses by hand and in my annoyance probably forgot once or
     twice.)



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