Dave Korn wrote: > > My install of setup on my Windows XP laptop always looks to the mirror > > sourceware.mirrors.tds.net (ftp) and ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu(ftp) for its > > updates and the web page http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html shows these > > mirror current as of 2008-08-29 13:48GMT and yet if I run a setup > > version compiled from cvs in July 2007 or a setup I compiled on > > 8/21/2008 from cvs it always tells me that the site > > sourceware.mirrors.tds.net (ftp) is not current. > > Can't reproduce.
I think I found a clue and have a hunch what is happening. I checked the mirrors-lst file that was downloaded the last time I ran setup on the windows XP machine (which has been warning me about sourceware). I found these line at the end of the mirrors-lst file: # Following mirrors re-added by setup.exe to warn again about dropped urls. ftp://sourceware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/sourceware.org/cygwin;sourceware.mirro rs.tds.net;North America;Wisconsin If I remove these line then the mirror check proceeds as normal and no warning occurs. I looked at my Windows 2000 machine and found a similar line for the gatech mirror which when removed from the mirror-lst file the warning goes away in setup on that machine as well. I then left the line there and started setup and the line stays with the updated mirrors-lst file leading me to believe that setup is copying those lines each time from the old mirrors-lst file to the new. My hunch is that at some point that line got in the mirror-lst file because the mirror was out of date and then each time I get the warning dialog I respond to Yes I want to continue using the mirror and I do not check "do not warn me again". My guess is that I get the warning because the lines are there and that setup does not reaffirm that the lines need to be there. Thoughts? bk
