On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > Would this be a good candidate for addition to > http://cygwin.com/download.html? Under a heading > such as: > > "Downloading if you have an unreliable connection"
Possibly. There are several ways of creating your own local copy of the cygwin packages/site. wget is a good tool for general mirroring, but I wouldn't really recommend mirroring the whole of cygwin unless you really have a need for it (a complete mirror consumes over 1.5Gb of disk space presently). Perhaps it would be better to enhance the Setup tool to be a little more robust in it's download processing. Perhaps adding a re-try option on an imcomplete package pull? I haven't looked into the guts of Setup for a while, but I'd bet that this might be doable with a minimum hassle. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter A. Castro [mailto:doctor@;fruitbat.org] > > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:05 PM > > To: Randall R Schulz > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: NO huge packages, please! > > > > > > 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@;ivic.ve] > > > > > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:25 AM > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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/ > > > > > > > -- > > Peter A. Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood > > > > > > -- > > 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/ > > > > > -- Peter A. Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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/