You might want to check out http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/mirror/index.html
for a mirroring tool that uses perl for ftp/http access.
Earnie.
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Charles Wilson wrote:
> So, if someone cares enough to do the work, there is still a need for
> the "additional tool" that uses the se
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:00:52 +0200 Volker Quetschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I attached the modified clean_setup.pl plus a shell scrip to get the
> missing files from a mirror. You have to modify the getmissing.sh to
> choose your mirror and your target download directory. The directory and
Hi!
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> A few notes:
>> ...
>> rsync can't merge.
>
> Yes, but Michael A. Chases clean_setup.pl can! I allowed myself to add a
> new option to clean_setup.pl, it exports the list of missing files to a
> file. Then you can use wget to get all the missing files.
>
> I
Hi!
Charles Wilson wrote:
> A few notes:
>
> ...
>
> rsync can't merge.
Yes, but Michael A. Chases clean_setup.pl can! I allowed myself to add a
new option to clean_setup.pl, it exports the list of missing files to a
file. Then you can use wget to get all the missing files.
I attached the
> -Original Message-
> From: Sam Edge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:18 PM
> Or am I missing something? ("Again" do I hear from the
> chorus? Kindly leave the auditorium, sir!) ;-)
As you may know, you can use the md5sum files to verify what was
downloa
Charles Wilson wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:04:14 -0400:
> P.S. you might want to add --exclude *-src.tar.* to the option string,
> if you don't want the -src tarballs.
As I understand it you can also exclude the setup.hint and md5.sum
files if you're j
Charles Wilson wrote:
> So, if someone cares enough to do the work, there is still a need for
> the "additional tool" that uses the setup.exe codebase to do
> "cygwin-specific distributed mirroring". See my earlier rant.
Oh, I left out the most obvious reason why rsync won't solve all of our
A few notes:
Using rsync does not help the following problem: I have four favorite
mirrors, plus a "private" setup-compatible website from my friend Bob.
setup.exe will show me a merged view of the contents of all of those
sites, insuring that I get the latest version of a package wherever it
Actually, this is a better set of options: we don't need to preserve
owner, groups, or devices, and the modify-window helps with the limited
timestamp granularity of the FAT filesystem. Remember to fix LOCALDIR
and remove --dry-run.
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#!/bin/sh
MIRROR=rsync://archive.proge
Poor archive.progeny.com ...
First, rsync places a heavy load on the server, so please do not
EVERYBODY run out and try this immediately. I suggest, for initial
rsyncs (when you need to download EVERYTHING), that folks follow this
rotation:
Surname Begins With Initial rysnc
ABC
10 matches
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