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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:01:33 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: multiple mirrors downloading
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Zenaan,

Your assumption is not in fact valid. Even if it were, you could avoid the 
problem by sticking to a single mirror. I do that just to simplify the 
clean-up of old package archives.

Cygwin's Setup.exe "integrates" the content of multiple download mirror 
directories on your local system when determining what to retrieve from the 
mirror(s) and which package archive to install. It will not download 
redundant copies of any given package.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 17:40 2002-10-13, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>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


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