Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/03/16:41:39
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> Alan Dobkin wrote:
> >
> > 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.
I do see the status bar and it does update fine as long as I leave
the setup window in the foreground. However, as soon as I click on
another window to let it process in the background, that's when the
behavior I described occurs. I have tested this on several different
computers, including a mixture of Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
> > 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?
Using wget, as recommended from the Cygwin web site. I've been
doing this the same way for at least a year, and it has worked
fine for all previous setup releases.
Thanks,
Alan
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