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Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: OwN-3m-All <own3mall at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 06:15:16 +0300
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs
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Greetings, OwN-3m-All!
> I'm trying to automate this as best as possible, and the only way to
> do so right now is to specify the mirror the setup utility uses by
> using something similar to:
> setup-x86_64.exe --site "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/"
> --quiet-mode --root "C:\dir" --local-package-dir "C:\dir\cygTemp"
> --packages "apache2"
> The problem with this is that it appears that mirror won't always work
> with each version of Windows (at least I think that's the case based
> on some strange behavior I'm seeing).
That can't be true. Simply because of how it works.
> Is there a way to have the setup automatically pick a site from the
> list of mirrors it downloads to use?
Just specify the mirror by hands.
If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, November 18, 2016 06:14:06
Sorry for my terrible english...
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