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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:04:50 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: NO huge packages, please!
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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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