Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/05/02:35:30
Yes, that page is a bit confusing.
Chris - is this patch acceptable for the web site?
Index: download.html
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RCS file: /cvs/cygwin/htdocs/download.html,v
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -u -p -r1.51 download.html
--- download.html 18 Apr 2002 15:24:29 -0000 1.51
+++ download.html 5 May 2002 06:34:49 -0000
@@ -14,33 +14,37 @@ setup.exe program to your computer. Whe
asked a series of questions for installing Cygwin on your computer.
Using setup.exe is the only supported method for installing Cygwin.</p>
-<p>The setup.exe program also allows you to download the Cygwin files
to
-a directory on your computer without installing them. By copying this
-download directory to other systems or putting it on a file server, you
-can, at a later time, use setup.exe to install directly from your hard
-disk.</p>
+<p>The setup.exe program always caches the package files that it
downloads to
+save you time if you need to reinstall, or to install multiple
machines. If for
+some reason you do not want to install what you download on your local
machine,
+the setup.exe program allows you to download the Cygwin files to a
directory on
+your computer without installing them. By copying this download
directory to
+other systems or putting it on a file server, you can, at a later time,
use
+setup.exe to install directly from your hard disk.</p>
<p>Due to volume limitations, the Cygwin distribution is only available
from
<a href="mirrors.html">mirror sites</a>. You'll be prompted to choose
one
of these during the setup.exe installation.</p>
-<p>If you are adventurous (i.e., masochistic) you can also download the
+<p>If you are adventurous (i.e. masochistic) you can also download the
Cygwin distribution via ftp or http using some other program than
-setup.exe. If you do this, note that the distribution is currently
-located in two directories: "latest" and "contrib". That is subject to
-change at any time, though.</p>
+setup.exe. If you do this, note that the distribution is currently
+located in one directory: "release". That is subject to change at any
time,
+ though.</p>
<p>The Cygwin distribution consists of standard UNIX .tar.gz or
.tar.bz2
files. Cygwin's tar + gzip + bzip2 programs can unpack these files,
just like their UNIX counterparts however you will probably find
yourself in a chicken/egg situation if you attempt this without Cygwin
-installed on your system (see below). Installing Cygwin using this
-method is <em>not</em> recommended.</p>
+installed on your system (see below). Installing Cygwin using this
+method is <em>not</em> recommended. Further documentation on the
packaging
+format and setup.ini database is available from <a
href="setup.html">here</a>
+and <a
href="http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>Note that you may be tempted to unpack the .tar.gz files with some
-Windows program like WinZip. This will not work reliably. Cygwin's
tar
-files are not fully understood by WinZip. Attempting to use WinZip to
-unpack a distribution will result in a damaged Cygwin installation.</p>
+Windows program like WinZip. This will not work. Tar files are not
fully
+understood by WinZip. Attempting to use WinZip to unpack a distribution
+<em>will</em> result in a damaged Cygwin installation.</p>
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</body>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perry Hutchison [mailto:perryh AT pluto DOT rain DOT com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:13 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No
> such file"
>
>
> > > When I read the instructions a month ago, I got the=20 impression
> > > that 'install from internet' would not save the=20 downloaded
> > > packages after installing them. Perhaps the=20 documentation
> > > (and/or the behavior of
> > > setup) has changed since then.
> >
> > It hasn't changed in years. Can you point me to the area of
> > documentation that suggested the incorrect behaviour to you?
>
> It's www.cygwin.com/download.html
>
> Even now, I see nothing there to suggest that an "install
> from internet" would also retain the uninstalled packages. I
> visualize it downloading a package, installing it, and then
> deleting the downloaded file before downloading the next
> package, so as to minimize disk requirements.
>
>
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