> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter A. Castro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 November 2003 19:08 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Installation from locally stored packages > > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:48:08PM -0000, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > > >Actually at least 1/2 of the mirror sites allow > downloading via FTP. > > > >(and some via rsync too) > > > > > > I'm sure that it is much more than 1/2 but it doesn't > matter anyway. > > > Just use wget or curl to download the files. > > > > - and 'wget' runs on ? > > Linux, Cygwin, just to name a few. Any place that has a > compiler and you > can fetch the source for wget, you can likely build it yourself. Sounds interesting - I'll have to give this some serious investigation. I like the idea of having the same software on different platforms. Could be very, very useful. > > > >if you know what you are doing and keep the directory > structure its > > > >entirely possible. have a google on site:cygwin.com > cygwin install > > > >from cd or similar to find previous discussions. > > > > > > Right. The initial poster couldn't have searched too hard if they > > > couldn't find this since it seems to come up every couple > of weeks. > > > > Really ? I must improve my lurking skills - I can't recall > having seen > > a request for help downloading Cygwin via a Linux machine > before. Maybe > > the OP's request isn't as unusual as I first thought ! > > The platform is mostly inconsequential. If you can get an application > like wget or curl on the platform of your choice, you will be > able to pull > whichever files you need. Oh, I'm going to enjoy this - seeing just how many platforms I can get wget running on. :-) > Oh, and just for the record, I use a cron job to run wget on > my webserver > (which runs Linux Slackware) to sync a private copy off one of the > mirrors of the Cygwin distribution. I'm sure many people do this too. > It's fairly simple to craft a wget command with the right set > of options. > And, as cgf said, this has been discussed many times before > on this list > and should be in the email archives. It was often talked about in > combination with creating a CD image of Cygwin. I've often fancied doing this with a few of the packages I like, but couldn't see a way of keeping it simple - until now. Thanks for the info, and I'm sure the OP now feels better equipped to solve his problem as well. Kevin. > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >
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