Charles Wilson wrote: > So, if someone cares enough to do the work, there is still a need for > the "additional tool" that uses the setup.exe codebase to do > "cygwin-specific distributed mirroring". See my earlier rant.
Oh, I left out the most obvious reason why rsync won't solve all of our problems: we have lots of ftp and http mirrors, but very few (ONE?) rsync mirrors. That really kills the "distributed" nature of the mirror system; that poor guy in Thailand with the slow connection would be rsync'ing across the Pacific from Indiana...that can't be good. A tool that leverages the setup.exe codebase would inherit the ability to use the existing ftp and http mirror sites. --Chuck </stating the obvious> P.S. you might want to add --exclude *-src.tar.* to the option string, if you don't want the -src tarballs. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
