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Date:	Wed, 29 May 2002 16:49:14 -0500
From:	David T-G <davidtg-cygwin AT justpickone DOT org>
To:	"CygWin Users' List" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc:	Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
Subject:	Re: telling setup to "get everything"
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Robert, et al --

=2E..and then Robert Collins said...
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% > -----Original Message-----
% > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com=20
% > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of David T-G
=2E..
% >=20
% > In my playing with setup I never figured out how to tell it to force a
% > download of everything, whether it thinks I have it or not, without
% > having to manually click on many, many, many packages.
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% This is because setup.exe is not a mirroring tool, and 'getting
% everything' is a mirroring exercise. Setup is designed to only download

Hmmm...  Good point; I had thought of it as a "get ready to install from
CD" exercise, but mirroring certainly sounds more like it.

So maybe I just need to check out wget or rsync or whatever method the
site supports.  Good enough.


% the gap - the pacakges that are not available in the local cache but are
% needed to perform your requested actions. You may find that clicking on
% the top level 'default' comes close, or even does what you want though.

Well, close in some respects, but it was still a lot of clicking.  The
problem that I faced was that I had a "dirty" setup, and so it kept
telling me I had things that I didn't, and then there was the whole
matter of the missing libintl1 package (I wish I'd known then what and
how to report!).


% YMMV.

It sure did :-)


%=20
% Rob


Thanks & HAND

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