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To:	"Keith Christian" <keithchristian AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Keeping a local mirror up to date
Date:	Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:56:01 +0100
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Keith Christian wrote:
> Scenario:
>
> A few months ago I used SETUP.EXE to "download from internet" to a local 
> hard
> drive, which I copied to a CD to make it easier to install Cygwin on
> workstations.
>
> When I want to update this local disk mirror with the latest packages, 
> which
> option do I choose to download ONLY updated or brand new packages, 
> skipping
> what is unchanged?
>
> Is a "update an existing local mirror" procedure in a FAQ somewhere?

Experiment with "clean_setup.pl" (google)

You need to use it like this:

wget a new setup.ini
clean_setup.pl
wget the files it says are missing
clean_setup.pl # puts the new downloads in the right directories.

Max.


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