Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/11/07/12:45:08
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
> 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"
Possibly. There are several ways of creating your own local copy of the
cygwin packages/site. wget is a good tool for general mirroring, but I
wouldn't really recommend mirroring the whole of cygwin unless you really
have a need for it (a complete mirror consumes over 1.5Gb of disk space
presently). Perhaps it would be better to enhance the Setup tool to be a
little more robust in it's download processing. Perhaps adding a re-try
option on an imcomplete package pull? I haven't looked into the guts of
Setup for a while, but I'd bet that this might be doable with a minimum
hassle.
> > -----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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