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 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:50:41 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file Message-ID: <20050311165041.GA28398@gully.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050311035700.10375.qmail@web14427.mail.yahoo.com> <20050311041456.GA18668@gully.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:45:24AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:57:00AM -0300, Ricardo Fodra wrote: >>>Does setup have to download mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 every time? >>>Can't it compare the date of the files on the server and on the >>>computer? I have a dial up connection and I can only download a few >>>packages per day, and every day setup downloads those files. >> >>mirrors.lst is updated twice a day. setup.bz2 is updated frequently. >>It is possible to add the kind of functionality that you're talking >>about, though. It's just a simple matter of programming. >> >>Unfortunately, the wisher to doer ratio for cygwin is pretty high so it >>is unlikely that anyone would be implementing anything like this. > >FWIW, someone posted a patch just two days ago with one possible way of >addressing this issue: > Which, of course, >just proves that searching the archives actually *does* help >sometimes... :-) So, in this case the "doer" would be a setup maintainer who could review and integrate the patch. cgf -- 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/