Re: multiple mirrors downloading

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl deserves a mention here.
URL: http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/

I use it with the -missing & -missingprefix options for all my Cygwin
package downloading.


Max.


Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Zenaan,
>
> Your assumption is not in fact valid. Even if it were, you could
> avoid the problem by sticking to a single mirror. I do that just to
> simplify the clean-up of old package archives.
>
> Cygwin's Setup.exe "integrates" the content of multiple download
> mirror directories on your local system when determining what to
> retrieve from the mirror(s) and which package archive to install. It
> will not download redundant copies of any given package.
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
> At 17:40 2002-10-13, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> I want to have a mirror archive on my laptop, and keep it up to
>> date, so I can update the three ops PCs I have at work from my local
>> mirror, and to simplify keeping them all in sync wrt versions.
>>
>> My first attempt sits like this: On my workstation (Debian
>> GNU/Linux) I created a samba share and used the cywin download tool
>> to download to disk, to my samba share. This was fine, except a few
>> days later when I went to update the local repository, the mirror I
>> had been using had stopped working - so I went back again and used a
>> different mirror.
>>
>> The problem: Looking at my local repository directory, it appears
>> that there is a funky looking "mirror-name-with-percent-signs-etc"
>> top level directory FOR EACH MIRROR. So I quickly stopped the second
>> download/ update, assuming it would go and redownload the entire
>> archive.
>>
>> If my assumption that it would redownload everything is correct,
>> this is a ridiculous waste of bandwidth, and unacceptable.
>>
>> So, where do I go from here?
>>
>> TIA
>> Zenaan


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