X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:00:51 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1572485345.20121128130051@mtu-net.ru> To: Paul , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Creating CD of installation packages: Download incomplete. Try again? In-Reply-To: References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20AD854C98A@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <20121125072140.GB12513@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Greetings, Paul! > As I mentioned in my original message, I tried to create a directory of > installation packages that mirror my current cygwin installation so that I can > install the same packages on another PC. Say the original path for the > installation packages was c:/cygwin/LocalPkg. For the downloaded packages from > which I would create an installation CD, I created c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg. I > chose "Download without installing" in setup.exe and "Reinstall" in the Select > Packages phase. However, the download fails repeatedly regardless of the mirror > specified. Fortunately, in the initial download attempt, most of the download > was completed before the failure. In order to fetch only the missing packages, > I identified the missing packages as: > _autorebase 000164-1 > _update-info-dir 01088-1 > libpoppler19 0.18.4-2 > Unfortunately, I can only select Keep or Uninstall. There is no choice to > Reinstall regardless of whether the Keep or Cur radio buttons are selected. Why > would this be, and how can I select Reinstall so that the packages are > downloaded into c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg? > If there is no solution to that, would it be a good idea to simply copy the > corresponding folder from the actual local package directory c:/cygwin/LocalPkg > to the corresponding location in c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg? I can't just test > this on a whim because I have to prepare the CD at home then arrange for an > administrator to install it in the office. Simple solution would be to remove these packages from cache and download them anew, when you doing a new install. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 28.11.2012, <12:58> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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