Re: multiple mirrors downloading

2002-10-14 Thread Max Bowsher
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

Re: multiple mirrors downloading

2002-10-13 Thread Randall R Schulz
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

multiple mirrors downloading

2002-10-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
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 use