fyi - mirror prob

Tue Jul 10 10:17:00 GMT 2007

On 10 July 2007 11:07, René Berber wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> On 10 July 2007 09:25, Linda Walsh wrote:
>>>>> seems like the grep package on http://mirrors.kernel.org appears corrupt
>>> (too short). Seems fine on another mirror.
>>>> Seems fine on kernel.org to me: maybe you have local firewall / http
>> proxy issues? 
>> One problem I've seen was that the "mirrors" (at kernel.org) are not
> synchronized btw. themselves. Looking at your wget, you get 2 addresses (in
> random order), the result depends on which one is used.

 For me, .31 works fine and .7 gives me a 404 error, because it only has the older version 2.5.1a-3.
 Man, that could really screw with setup.exe's head if it got setup.ini from one mirror and then tried downloading from the other!
 cheers,
 DaveK
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