Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/01/13:56:05
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> I cannot get setup.exe to permit multiple selection of mirrors, so how
> is this magical seamless multi-mirror integration achieved? Can it be
> done without running setup.exe more than once?
Yes -- you should be able to shift-click or ctrl-click select multiple
items in the mirror list (assuming you are using the NEW setup snapshot
20020225).
> If not, what's the
> advantage over separate download and install?
>
> Furthermore, why doesn't the multi-mirror technique, however effected,
> work for separated download and install, too?
Because there is no 'remote site selection' step if you are not
installing/downloading. Sure, you could do a multi-site non-install
download using setup, and then run setup in 'local dir' mode to install.
But setup is NOT meant to be an archiving/mirroring tool. It is an
installation tool. If you want a local mirror -- USE a mirroring tool.
Good grief, wget has special mirroring options -- that's what I use...
> Lastly, am I correct in believing that if one wants to download anything
> but not install it (source, e.g., or packages used by some at one's site
> but not by all) that separate download and install is the only way to
> accomplish this?
if the remote site provides a local version of setup.ini that accurately
describes the contents of that remote site, then you should be able to
select the (non-standard) site as a 'download location' and setup.exe
will merge all selected sites, and download (or dl/install) the most
recent copy of each selected package, from whatever location has the
most recent version (incl. packages from the non-standard site).
> It still seems to me that control freaks are going to do as I do:
> Separate download and install.
Sure. And some people (incl. me) still boot their linux boxen into
console mode and only run X when required. But that's still no reason
not to develop xdm/gdm/kdm graphical logon managers.
Currently, there are no sites that provide cygwin packages in
setup-approved format, that are not part of the official cygwin mirror
system. (Because until now, you couldn't use setup to install from
ANYPLACE other than localdir or an *official* mirror site). Now that
you can enter custom URLs and do multi-site selection, I imagine that
many uses will be found for the new functionality.
Perhaps the Emacs folks (NOT XEmacs -- they already have a different
solution) will create a cygwin-setup dirtree once their cygwin port is
complete. Perhaps folks who have ported a package and want to make it
available, but do NOT want to accept the maintainership responsibilities
that go with *official* package inclusion, will create
cygwin-setup-compatible distribution sites with custom setup.ini's.
These are all great things, and are reason enough for the multi-site
selection capability -- regardless of whether YOU actually use that
particular feature.
--Chuck
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