Re: [MiKTeX] Trouble specifying a custom mirror location

[Christian S. <cs...@mi...>]

Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
> Dear MikTeX developers,
> 
> We'd like to popularize the use of LaTeX/TeX among college students with 
> windows and MikTeX is the best distribution for this need.  Thanks for 
> making this available!
> 
> We were trying to install MikTeX and ran into a problem using a local 
> mirror.  At IIT Bombay we have a local CTAN mirror.  This is not an 
> official mirror (it is an internal site) and does not show up in the 
> list of MikTeX mirrors.  However, we'd like to be able to use our local 
> mirror.
> 
> We installed basic-miktex-2.8.3541.exe and when specifying the package 
> repository (from the maintenance link) to use we find that we can only 
> choose from the official list and not from another repository.  The same 
> holds for the setup.exe also. It would be great if we were allowed to 
> supply a custom repository (via http/ftp) on the UI.  Or is there 
> another way to achieve this easily?
> 
> Thanks again for the excellent TeX distribution!

I am afraid that this is not possible at the moment.