Sounds like something that's worthwhile to report to the site maintainer(s). Larry At 01:45 PM 1/23/2004, Jim Kleckner you wrote: >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 >>>-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/