Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/11/07/12:27:11
Would this be a good candidate for addition to
http://cygwin.com/download.html? Under a heading
such as:
"Downloading if you have an unreliable connection"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter A. Castro [mailto:doctor AT fruitbat DOT org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:05 PM
> To: Randall R Schulz
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: NO huge packages, please!
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > While wget is a great utility for mirroring, it's not quite
> 100% perfect
> > for mirroring for Cygwin Setup without a little "help."
> That's because of
> > the way Setup devises the name of the directory into which
> it places the
> > package files it retrieves.
> >
> > For example, this Cygwin mirror:
> >
> > http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/cygwin
> >
> > yields this directory name in Setup's local package mirror
> (on one's system):
> >
> > http%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fcygwin/
> >
> > Be sure to manually replicate this naming convention if you
> mirror with a
> > tool other than Setup itself.
>
> With the right options, this isn't an issue. I, for example,
> sync to my
> local mirror from an ftp mirror with a command that looks
> something like
> this:
>
> /usr/bin/wget --mirror --convert-links --backup-converted \
> --no-host-directories \
> --append-output=/webserver/ftp-log/mirrorcygwin/20021107.log \
> --directory-prefix=/webserver/ftp/pub/cygwin \
> --cut-dirs=3 \
> ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin
>
> My local ftp mirror roots at /webserver/ftp, so I then
> instruct setup to
> pull from ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin. Works pretty
> well for me,
> no manual fudging required.
>
> > Randall Schulz
> > Mountain View, CA USA
> >
> >
> > At 08:01 2002-11-07, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
> > >If you are having problems with your slow
> > >connection breaking in the middle of a
> > >download, then you might try using the 'wget'
> > >utility to download packages, and then use 'setup.exe'
> > >with the 'Install from Local Directory' option
> > >for installation.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Rodrigo Medina [mailto:rmedina AT ivic DOT ve]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:25 AM
> > > > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > > > Subject: NO huge packages, please!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > To those that prepare packages,
> > > > Cuold you have a little bit of mercy with us, people
> that have slow
> > > > connections, and do not make packages bigger than (say)
> 10 MBytes?
> > > > Please!
> > > >
> > > > Rodrigo Medina, rmedina AT ivic DOT ve
> >
> >
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