Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/07/30/05:12:10
Thanks for clarifications.
The problems is the use of setup.exe to download the distribution.
I tired to use wget pointing the same mirror site (heanet.ie) but i
download only the directory structures reported in index.html files.
Could you suggest me right options to wget (like installation of
cygwin in the past wget running well now no???).
PS: _Add_ in cygwin, like "other distributions", a iso file with
the last release to download once is a wrong approach?
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> peterpan1616 wrote:
>>
>> I'm a bit confuse.
>> I was thinking that setup.exe was a sort of wizard able to download
>> what you want and selecting the options 'install' he download ALL.
>> Now I'm not sure. If I use a program like wget, I obtain all from the
>> repository but how match the dependency?
>> If I download cygwin today on this machine and tomorrow I download
>> again from the same mirror in another location, if I choose 'install',
>> setup could download exactly the same things.
>> Or setup make a check in the directory root where cygwin is installed.
>> In this case, setup have to finish with NO DOWNLOAD.
>> For me make confusion that today download same package and tomorrow
>> others.
>> Where is the bug?
>
> 'setup.exe' uses '/etc/setup/installed.db' to figure out what's already been
> installed on the machine you're running 'setup.exe' from. If you installed
> everything yesterday, run it again today, and no packages have been updated
> on the repository, nothing will happen. That's what you expect. And this
> is exactly the functionality that makes the current implementation of
> 'setup.exe' "not a mirroring tool" as I've stated.
>
> You described a scenario where you use 'setup.exe' to _download_ packages
> to your local directory (repository) and then want to use that set of
> packages to install on another computer (i.e. you're using it like a
> mirroring tool). Downloading is not the same as installing and the fact
> that 'setup.exe' will download packages for you (either as part of the
> install task or as a separately initiated download task) doesn't mean it
> doesn't pay attention to what's already installed on the machine your
> using. If you plan to use 'setup.exe' as a mirroring tool, you'll have
> to refrain from installing Cygwin on the machine you want to use "setup
> as a mirroring tool" on (or be willing to rename '/etc/setup/installed.db'
> every time you want to use it in this way). In general, you're probably
> better off with a good mirroring tool that will download what you want
> the way you want it without mucking around with bookkeeping files that
> 'setup.exe' uses. Of course, the choice is yours.
>
> No matter _how_ you choose to download the Cygwin packages, you still
> want 'setup.exe' to _install_ them. Using 'setup.exe' and pointing to
> you local repository will allow you to select the packages you want
> and it will handle the dependencies. Your problem has been that your
> local repository doesn't contain some of the packages that are required
> to make a working installation ('ash' for example). If you're missing
> required packages, it doesn't matter whether you want to install
> everything from your local repository or just a portion. The result
> will be a broken installation - as you've seen.
>
>
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