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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:48:52 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: new setup.exe -  another problem, or is this behavior expected?
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On 2/28/2014 10:05 AM, carolus wrote:
> On 2/27/2014 5:36 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> , if you start one session of setup, select a
>> package, download it, and don't install it (for whatever reason), then
>> start another setup session and do the same thing with a with a different
>> mirror, you'll get the same package again under a different directory tree
>> (the root of that tree being loosely named after the mirror you chose).
>
> Does this mean that install-from-internet is a better choice than
> download-without-installing when the connection is apt to be broken? Or for
> combining several overnight runs to cope with a slow connection? Currently
> I'm downloading to an external USB drive which I then use to reinstall
> Cygwin on several machines.
>
> And thanks for the explanation.

Either should work OK, as the former is a superset of the latter.  The key
thing is to not pick more than 1 mirror if you don't need to.

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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