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[PATCH] - setup.exe --mirror-list option (nudge, nudge)
No comments?
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com]
On Behalf Of Hicks, Jerry - ACD
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:11 PM
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: [patch] - setup.exe --mirror-list option
Hi,
I've been setting up a package server that does not have direct internet
connectivity.
Regardless of what I tried, I was unable to keep it from attempting to
contact cygwin.com to retrieve the mirror list. Upon inspection I
found that the URL for the mirror list appears to be hardcoded into the
.rc file.
I suppose there are good reasons for that in the usual case but I needed
to be able to override it.
Follows is a simple hack to allow a '--mirror-list' option which allows
one to specify where to pick up the mirror list. I believe it might be
useful to others.
If there is a method of achieving this otherwise [or a reason why it's
stupid :-)] I would appreciate a heads-up.
Cheers,
Jerry Hicks
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