Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe final pre-release.. From: Robert Collins To: Max Bowsher Cc: Alan Dobkin , Cygwin Mailing List In-Reply-To: <014c01c2fa8b$c4ce5590$9582883e@pomello> References: <014c01c2fa8b$c4ce5590$9582883e@pomello> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CVPBkaSN7i9RkQ+Gf9F0" Organization: Message-Id: <1049449214.3850.29.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 04 Apr 2003 19:40:14 +1000 --=-CVPBkaSN7i9RkQ+Gf9F0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 19:22, Max Bowsher wrote: > Alan Dobkin wrote: > > On 4 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > > > >> you should use apache or IIS to serve out the mirror and add > >> it to your mirror selection creen in the custom URL field. > >> > >> Then, setup won't check the md5's of every package. > > > > This seems like an overly complex workaround just to preserve > > the existing functionality. >=20 > Horribly over-complex. I disagree. The local package cache is *not* a mirror, and a mirror is *not* a local package cache. WHEN setup starts maintaining the content of it's caches, folk that use a mirroring script to populate their local package cache rather than to create a local mirror will be horribly upset that setup deletes files. I'd really rather avoid that headache (which involves potential data loss) than encourage it. > > And, it has the side effect of > > creating another cache on each client system and re-downloading > > each package before it is installed. >=20 > Yes, bad! Not at all. The packages won't be downloaded off the net, they'll come from the local mirror. The local package cache for each client can be deleted by a script if desired. Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-CVPBkaSN7i9RkQ+Gf9F0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+jVL+I5+kQ8LJcoIRAsM8AKDT1Yn9GXM2ECyptQZP9T0pqiaFSgCfWRtE iLlcRjRGcbIhAl7WpRuwwlQ= =Dyet -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CVPBkaSN7i9RkQ+Gf9F0--