Randall R Schulz wrote: > At 09:23 2003-03-19, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Randall R Schulz wrote: >>> At 07:54 2003-03-19, Daniel Barclay wrote: >>>> Why can't you download the files using any FTP/HTTP client and >>>> operating system you want, transfer the files (or otherwise make >>>> them visible) to a Windows system, and only then use setup.exe to >>>> install the files from the Windows-visible directory? >>> >>> This is quite feasible, but a simple local mirror of the Cygwin >>> distribution or any valid subset thereof (itself obtained from one >>> of the public mirror sites, of course) will not be suitable for use >>> by Setup.exe. There needs to be a renaming applied between the >>> mirror host and the local mirror. >> >> No. There is no need for renaming. > > Yes there is. The host name (including the scheme from the URL and the > colon separating it from the host name) and the first slash that > separates the host name from the directory name on the mirror server > must be URL-encoded. Wget won't do this directly, though as my BASH > script shows, the proper names can be derived and suitable options > exist to get wget to put the files in the right place as it downloads > them.
Or, this directory structure works: <lpd>/setup.ini <lpd>/release/<whole tree of files> Where <lpd> it the local package directory you specify in setup. Max. -- 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/
