Specifying multiple download sources on the setup command line

[Nikhil Nair]

Hi again,

Sorry to have bothered you with this.  I experimented, and found multiple
-s options do work.

I did have fun and games working out that the particular mirror site I was
going to use needed to have /cygwin added to the host name, but not
/cygwin/x86_64.  But third or fourth time, I got it going.

Cheers,

Nikhil.


On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Nikhil Nair wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to do a reinstall from scratch, after my old setup fell apart.  I'll
> be using Cygwin Ports as well as a regular Cygwin mirror, and, as I'm blind
> and use the keyboard, this isn't easy to do with the current GUI
> setut*.exe: you ought to be able to hold down control and use the up and
> down arrow keys, then hit space bar (while still holding control) to select
> or de-select a mirror site; but that functionality seems to be missing.  I
> can hold shift and use up or down arrow to select more than one site, but
> they have to be next to each other in the list, which the ones I'm after
> aren't.
>
> So, the easiest option seems to be to use -s to specify download sites on
> the command line.  However, I'm not clear what you're supposed to do in
> order to specify two separate sites: do you use two separate -s options (-s
> site1 -s site2), or do you give a (say) semi-colon-separated list, e.g. -s
> site1;site2?  I presume you can, in fact, specify multiple download
> sites...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nikhil.
>
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