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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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