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Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs
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On 2016-11-17 21:06, OwN-3m-All wrote:
>> Just specify the mirror by hands.
>> If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it.
>
> That's really not a good solution.  I don't have control over the
> mirrors or would know why one isn't working.  I think a new
> command-line argument should be added that makes Cygwin setup pick one
> of the mirrors it knows is good from the list it downloads.
>
> A command-line argument is the way to go, but a text file with a list
> of known good mirrors that could be downloaded and parsed by a script
> would also be of great help.  Cygwin already checks the status of its
> mirros as far as I know.
>
> And for some reason, using the mirror of
> "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/" on Windows Server 2008 sometimes
> causes it to randomly crash complaining about a runtime c++ error
> without any good information output into the setup log.  Like I said,
> when I run the setup manually, the list of mirrors it pulls does not
> contain "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/".
>
> I'd much rather rely on Cygwin's list than one hard coded site value
> for a mirror which may or may not be up-to-date.

Setup gets its list from: https://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-apps%2Fsetup.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=MIRROR
Use the Source Luke!

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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