Subject: RE: NO huge packages, please!
From: "Harig, Mark A." <[email-masked]>
To: "Peter A. Castro" <[email-masked]>, "Randall R Schulz" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:26:53 -0500

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:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:05 PM
> To: Randall R Schulz
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 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:[email-masked]]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:25 AM
> > > > To: [email-masked]
> > > > 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, [email-masked]
> > 
> > 
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