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Re: multiple mirrors downloading
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:01:33 -0700
- Subject: Re: multiple mirrors downloading
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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