Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: multiple mirrors downloading From: Zenaan Harkness To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 14 Oct 2002 11:40:30 +1100 Message-Id: <1034556031.783.231.camel@zen8100a> Mime-Version: 1.0 I want to have a mirror archive on my laptop, and keep it up to date, so I can update the three ops PCs I have at work from my local mirror, and to simplify keeping them all in sync wrt versions. My first attempt sits like this: On my workstation (Debian GNU/Linux) I created a samba share and used the cywin download tool to download to disk, to my samba share. This was fine, except a few days later when I went to update the local repository, the mirror I had been using had stopped working - so I went back again and used a different mirror. The problem: Looking at my local repository directory, it appears that there is a funky looking "mirror-name-with-percent-signs-etc" top level directory FOR EACH MIRROR. So I quickly stopped the second download/ update, assuming it would go and redownload the entire archive. If my assumption that it would redownload everything is correct, this is a ridiculous waste of bandwidth, and unacceptable. So, where do I go from here? TIA Zenaan -- Mr Zenaan Harkness, Manager, VIDC Phone: +678 25 151 Fax: +678 25 178 Mobile: +678 45 179 Please respect the confidentiality of this email. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/