X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:21:04 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: KevinGPO Subject: Re: HELP: cygwin setup.exe woes... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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 Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, KevinGPO wrote: > > > [snip] > > Now I want to download a complete cygwin (Interpreters, Development, > > etc.) however it won't do that. All I get is 10MB downloaded files. > > Somehow it has remembered my previous downloads... How can I get around > > this? Cygwin never used to do this? or did it?? > > Heh, if you think these are woes, you should see the complaints about the > "Uncaught Exception"... :-) > > Setup is primarily an installer, not a download tool. As such, it won't > even bother downloading packages that are already installed on the system. > It knows what's installed by looking at /etc/setup/installed.db in your > Cygwin tree. So, the simplest way to get it to temporarily "forget" what > it has previously downloaded is to rename installed.db while downloading. ^^^^^ s/while/before/ > Setup should re-create it, but if you only download (and not install) > things, the new copy will be empty and can be replaced by the old. I > wouldn't recommend actually installing anything with no installed.db, as > it wouldn't be trivial to bring your system to a consistent state > afterwards. > > One other thing that seemed weird is you first downloading and then > installing packages. If all you want is to install things, setup can do > it in one shot (still retaining the cached download directory). 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/