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Re: cygwin package server inside firewall, setup can't get list of download sites
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:09:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygwin package server inside firewall, setup can't get list of download sites
- References: <20041214163814.1e319c14.gry@ll.mit.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:38:14PM -0500, george young wrote:
>[setup-2.427, Windows XP pro 5.1, experienced with linux X, not a windows or cygwin hacker]
>
>I need to have a local (partial) copy of the cygwin software tree
>to allow fast installs for many PC's. This has to be inside our
>corporate firewall. I set up the data on a local ftp server.
>
>When I run setup, I have to specify "Install from Internet"
>and "Direct Connection" to get to my ftp server, inside the firewall.
>
>But then setup hangs "Can't get list of download sites..." because
>it's trying to get to some outside machine without proxy. Is there
>some way to force setup to get it's initial list of download sites
>from a local file, or from a locally specified host?
>
>And alas no, I can't fix my firewall to do the smart thing.
>
>If I have to, I suppose I can mount the software tree via samba
>and do "Install From Local Directory" from that share, but I'd
>rather avoid fetching hundreds of megabytes through samba...
Why are you posting a general cygwin question to the mailing list
devoted to Cygwin/X?