Hi Matt, that would be an great option. There is only one problem with it. It is not installed by default, right? So for example in my case I have no way to get the commandline installer without passing through the gui installer.
Or is there a way for this? Thanks, Andrea On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andrea, > > For a workaround until someone can (re)add this to setup.exe the command > line apt installer can use "--mirror=URL" syntax. Local paths need to use > "file:///d:/path/to/packages" format. > > The mirror used is remembered for future invocations, meaning you have to > change it back to the default manually, e.g.: > > apt --mirror=http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w update > > > pkg-apt: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-apt > > cheers, > > matt wilkie > -------------------------------------------- > Geomatics Analyst > Information Management and Technology > Yukon Department of Environment > 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9 > 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax > http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/ > -------------------------------------------- > > On 18/03/2011 2:50 AM, andrea antonello wrote: >> >> Hi all, how difficult would it be to enable mirror choosing for the >> osgeo4w installer? >> Since I remember the cygwin installer has the mirrors tab, I was >> trying to understand if that one had only been "hidden". >> >> Given all the problems that are occurring in several countries in >> downloading from the main repo, it would be very nice to be able to >> choose a mirror. >> I tried to pass the mirror address to the installer via --site option, >> but it doesn't work. >> >> Thanks, >> Andrea >> _______________________________________________ >> osgeo4w-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev >> . >> > _______________________________________________ > osgeo4w-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev > _______________________________________________ osgeo4w-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev
