NO huge packages, please!

[Randall R Schulz]

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.

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: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > 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, rmedina@ivic.ve


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