Robert,
Again, I apologize for offending you. I am quite content with Setup. My
approach is to find a reliable mirror and ISP, and I have managed both
(mostly).
Note, however, that this exchange started with a person dealing with an
unreliable modem link between his system and the Internet, so
From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@;ukf.net]
I thought I might as well mention my download method:
I wrote a little script to get a setup.ini file from a mirror, ...
>>>
>> Polley Christopher W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Sounds useful. :-) Care to share it?
[I misunderstand and pos
Polley Christopher W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@;ukf.net]
>> I thought I might as well mention my download method:
>> I wrote a little script to get a setup.ini file from a mirror,
>> and then use
>> Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl to make a list of URLs to get,
>>
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 18:18, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Sorry, Rob. No insult intended.
None taken, just clarifying the situation.
Rob
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On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 05:25, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> While it's true that Setup does have a retry facility if something goes
> wrong during download, it's manual: if a failure occurs during package
> download, then when everything is done you get an alert stating that there
> was a problem a
Robert,
Sorry, Rob. No insult intended.
Randall
At 23:10 2002-11-07, Robert Collins wrote:
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 05:51, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Be sure to review Max Bowsher's recent mail about the Setup code.
> Apparently it (Setup's source) is in slight disarray with some ongoing
> enhanc
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 05:38, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> Ah, yes, I do recall seeing this. But, I wouldn't really call this a
> re-try facility, because if 1 out of 100 packages downloaded with errors,
> the "re-try" will pull all 100 packages all over again. A far cry from
> ideal, I'd say :) This
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 05:51, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> Be sure to review Max Bowsher's recent mail about the Setup code.
> Apparently it (Setup's source) is in slight disarray with some ongoing
> enhancements in progress.
Not that much disarray, just not updated to gcc 3 yet. There are also a
> At 10:38 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>> Except that they end up either having to craft the commands to pull
>> only those package directories they really want, or pull the whole
>> she-bang. Again, not ideal. If I get time, I'll look at Setup and
>> see what it might take to add this "fea
Peter,
At 10:38 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > ... I'm a bit confused as to which problem we are addressing here now.
> >
> >--
> >Peter A. Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood
>
> ...
>
> While it's tr
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Peter,
>
> At 10:10 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >
> > > At 09:43 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> > > >...
> > > >
> > > >... Perhaps it would be better to enhance the Setup tool to be a litt
Peter,
At 10:10 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> At 09:43 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >...
> >
> >... Perhaps it would be better to enhance the Setup tool to be a little
> >more robust in it's download processing. Perhaps adding a re-try
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> At 09:43 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >...
> >
> >... Perhaps it would be better to enhance the Setup tool to be a little
> >more robust in it's download processing. Perhaps adding a re-try option
> >on an incomplete package pull? I haven't
At 09:43 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote:
...
... Perhaps it would be better to enhance the Setup tool to be a little
more robust in it's download processing. Perhaps adding a re-try option
on an incomplete package pull? I haven't looked into the guts of Setup
for a while, but I'd bet that
; > From: Peter A. Castro [mailto:doctor@;fruitbat.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:05 PM
> > To: Randall R Schulz
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: NO huge packages, please!
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> &
Mark,
Robert Collins frequently intoned that "Setup is not a mirroring tool," but
I'm unaware of where the knowledge of how to use alternate mirroring tools
resides.
So I'd say "yes," if you include Peter's usage hints.
Randy
At 09:26 2002-11-07, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
Would this be a good ca
2002 12:05 PM
> To: Randall R Schulz
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: NO huge packages, please!
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > While wget is a great utility for mirroring, it's not quite
> 100% perfect
>
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While wget is a great utility for mirroring, it's not quite 100% perfect
> for mirroring for Cygwin Setup without a little "help." That's because of
> the way Setup devises the name of the directory into which it places the
> package files
Hi,
While wget is a great utility for mirroring, it's not quite 100% perfect
for mirroring for Cygwin Setup without a little "help." That's because of
the way Setup devises the name of the directory into which it places the
package files it retrieves.
For example, this Cygwin mirror:
If you are having problems with your slow
connection breaking in the middle of a
download, then you might try using the 'wget'
utility to download packages, and then use 'setup.exe'
with the 'Install from Local Directory' option
for installation.
> -Original Message-
> From: Rodrigo Medina
Rodrigo,
How, exactly, would one do this? Arbitrarily throw stuff out of a package
until it fit some arbitrary size threshold?
Anyway, there are very few packages that exceed your criteria:
% find -size +10240k
./emacs/emacs-21.2-8-src.tar.bz2
./gcc/gcc-3.2-1-src.tar.bz2
./gdb/gdb-20010428-3-sr
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