Subject: Re: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the "skipped" packages?
From: "Alexei Lioubimov" <[email-masked]>
To: "David Starks-Browning" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:15:24 +0400

Hello David,
thank you for the answer.

Can you give some practical tips for using wget or some other mirroring
tool, cause i've never tried any of them before.

Alexei Lioubimov

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Starks-Browning" <[email-masked]>
To: "Alexei Lioubimov" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the "skipped" packages?

> On Monday 8 Jul 02, Alexei Lioubimov writes:
> > Hello,
> > is it possible to update _automatically_ (_automatically_ meens that
setup
> > will do version compare itself) not only installed packages, but also
those,
> > normally marked as "skip" on the local machine?
>
> At the "Select Packages" screen, in "Categories" view, at the line
> marked "All", click on the word "default" so that it reads "install".
> This tells Setup to install everything, not just what it thinks you
> should have by default.  (I intend to describe this in the FAQ.)
>
> > The reason is: to keep all needed packages as up-to-date distribution on
one
> > machine, which has internet connection, but doesn't have (and won't
have)
> > Cygwin installed.
>
> Ah, I see.  Don't use Cygwin Setup for that.  Use a mirroring tool.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>

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