X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:21:33 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "William A. Mahaffey III" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux .... In-Reply-To: <43CEFCF4.9050605@HiWAAY.net> Message-ID: References: <43CEFCF4.9050605@HiWAAY.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > .... I searched the main cygwin archives & found a thread on installing > Cygwin using Linux. It recommended just WGET-ing or FTP-ing the whole > release directory along w/ setup.exe & setup.ini & get on with it. > However .... I poked around on ftp.ale.org & observed that there were > usually 2 copies of packages in each subdir, both source & binary (4 > packages total). I am a bit tight on disk space, is there a way to > automatically download *only* the latest binary of each package ? You can parse setup.ini, extract the latest version filenames, and only pull those. > Better yet, is there a Linux version of setup.exe ? TIA No, setup.exe is a pure Windows program. You can probably compile the ini file parser on Linux, since it's just lex/yacc, but the rest of the code probably won't build. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/