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: <009f01c491c6$41675660$78d96f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Keith Christian" , References: <20040903140831.15829.qmail@web52202.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Keeping a local mirror up to date Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:56:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Keith Christian wrote: > Scenario: > > A few months ago I used SETUP.EXE to "download from internet" to a local > hard > drive, which I copied to a CD to make it easier to install Cygwin on > workstations. > > When I want to update this local disk mirror with the latest packages, > which > option do I choose to download ONLY updated or brand new packages, > skipping > what is unchanged? > > Is a "update an existing local mirror" procedure in a FAQ somewhere? Experiment with "clean_setup.pl" (google) You need to use it like this: wget a new setup.ini clean_setup.pl wget the files it says are missing clean_setup.pl # puts the new downloads in the right directories. Max. -- 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/