Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/03/16:06:43
Alan Dobkin wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
>>Indeed, and here it is:
>>http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.2.10.2.1.exe
>
>
> I haven't experienced any setup crashes, but I have a question
> about it's behavior when used with the local directory option.
>
> Each time I run it against a local mirror, it checks the MD5 sum
> of every package in the mirror. This is a time-consuming process
> and, unless the window remains in the foreground the entire time,
> it seems to hang. During this time, the status bar is frozen,
> the window doesn't repaint, and it cannot be moved. Eventually,
> once it finishes all of the MD5 checks, it displays the package
> selection screen and then works normally.
There is a status bar that should be udpating. I'm not sure it doesn't
for you.
> My question is this: Why is it necessary to scan every package
> in the mirror every time setup is run against a local mirror?
> Most of the time, I am only installing a single package or a
> few updates. It seems that setup should only check the packages
> being installed, and the rest of them should be ignored.
How do you create / maintain that local mirror. Via setup, or via an
external script of some sort?
Rob
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