Subject: Re: setup.exe cannot find mirrors
From: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
To: Barry Buchbinder <[email-masked]>
Cc: Cygwin <[email-masked]>
Date: 24 Apr 2003 05:47:46 +1000

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 00:57, Barry Buchbinder wrote:

Well, your guess is wrong. sources.redhat.com doesn't have a habit of
disappearing regularly. There may be some local issue..

> Which brings up a feature that the setup crew might
> consider.  (Note: This is a suggestion, not a
> request.)  Might setup cache the mirror list as a fall
> back for when one cannot download a fresh one?  Or
> might updated mirror lists be distributed from the
> mirrors.  in this case, setup would only download the
> mirror list from sources.redhat.com when first used or
> when the default mirror is inaccessible.

From the Wishlist:
 * mirrors.lst to be copied to setup.ini and cached locally. Then the
master
   mirrors list is reserved for bootstrapping.

Secondly if you use the 'IE5 settings' choice in the current setup.exe,
setup allows cached data, and will operate *much* faster at retrieving
the mirrors.lst and mirror setup.bz2 files (when no changes have
occured).

Rob
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