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Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:14:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs
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OwN-3m-All writes:
> That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the
> mirrors or would know why one isn't working.
The only way to thoroughly solve that problem is to provide your own
mirror (which by definition you have control over).
> I think a new command-line argument should be added that makes Cygwin
> setup pick one of the mirrors it knows is good from the list it
> downloads.
That really doesn't work without quite a bit of server-side
infrastructure that currently simply isn't in place. Personally I'd
prefer MirrorBrain, but SHTDI and all that.
> A command-line argument is the way to go, but a text file with a list
> of known good mirrors that could be downloaded and parsed by a script
> would also be of great help. Cygwin already checks the status of its
> mirros as far as I know.
If you think you know which mirror is currently working (best) for you,
that file can easily be downloaded.
Regards,
Achim.
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