Fresh install of Cygwin, not working

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 8 15:17:00 GMT 2008


On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 05:04:02PM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote:
>Well, we know that frequently the mirror(s) we use are bad, because
>after we rsync from them to a local disc for use on our intranet, it
>fails the MD5 checks of the files.  I wrote this script to make the
>check nightly, after the rsync.

If the mirrors had non-matching MD5 signatures for .tar.bz2 files then
setup.exe wouldn't install the associated package tar file for the bad
MD5.  That's kinda how it all works.

cgf

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