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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040422132732.03901008@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:31:59 -0400 To: "Dave Korn" , From: Larry Hall Subject: RE: i want to re-download all packages... how? In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:46 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of electa >> Sent: 22 April 2004 16:01 > >> i have some packeges installed, but i have lost their .bz2 files... >> now i want to retrieve all packages because I would like to >> put them on a >> CD-RW! >> --> setup.exe knows what packages i have alreay installed and >> don't download >> them... >> > >If you *really* want to download absolutely *everything*, just delete the >entire contents of your local download directory and start again. Actually, I think that was his original problem. ;-) If you want to make setup forget about what you have installed, you need to remove the files in '/etc/setup'. This assumes the OP wants to install everything too though, which isn't clear from the original post. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/