X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49220B69.6070106@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:25:13 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc8 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Downloading (parts of) Cygwin for later local install? References: <20081117084749.GB16812@tomas> In-Reply-To: <20081117084749.GB16812@tomas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > is there an easy way of pre-downloading whatever is necessary to do a > later local Cygwin install? > > Note: the recommended method of using Cygwin itself is not available to > me, since I only have a GNU/Linux computer on the Net (lucky me ;-) > > Wgetting all of would seem a tad wasteful > to me (plus I don't know whether the cygwin installer does any "magical > munging" on the packages while downloading). No magic download munging, no. 'wget' will work and is the recommmended approach if what you want is a mirror. > I trolled the lists and the FAQ, but I seem to be moving in circles. The FAQ doesn't like trolls. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/