X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HK_OBFDOM,HTTP_ESCAPED_HOST,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A6F98AF.10601@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:32:47 +0100 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: install from install files? References: <2d4e447c0907280428n37280f47p17f24645b61dfd24@mail.gmail.com> <2d4e447c0907280436gab6e020gb4518b1dbbad7682@mail.gmail.com> <4A6EEB12.6000504@gmail.com> <2d4e447c0907281633l7c868d87v9099adb83524e46d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2d4e447c0907281633l7c868d87v9099adb83524e46d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Robert Mark Bram wrote: > Yes, I did mean the package directory, e.g.: > C:\Documents and Settings\rbram\My > Documents\Downloads\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.aarnet.edu.au%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f > > One more question: I notice that each time I update Cygwin, I get > another "ftp...mirror.. " folder. Do I need to point the "local > installation" at one of these folders or to the parent and have it > pick up the updates? Use the parent, which is what you specified in setup.exe where it asked for the local package dir path. Setup.exe stores all the downloaded files in a directory named after the particular mirror they came from, but it then gives you an overall view of all of them merged together in the package chooser screen. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple