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 Message-ID: <011901c2fd5c$32946600$e957893e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , "Andrew Markebo" References: <20030407223033.GB332@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Copy to a CD and distribute to students Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:19:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Andrew Markebo wrote: > Ok sorry, should have written a bit clearer.. *sigh* why do we dig > into stuff like this when we can play with the code? ;-) > > Ahh well, my first thoghts where that cygwin+source were bigger than 1 > CD, therefore it might be easier for them going binaries only. How > long will that last (the excellent size of today)? OTOH when cygwin > climbs over 600 megs.. we are probably using DVD's ;-) A complete Cygwin *mirror* is over 700MB. But that includes 2 or 3 versions of most packages. Michael Chase makes available an excellent perl script for filtering previous versions out of already-downloaded package caches, and building lists of the specific files to download to bring a cache up to date: http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/