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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:41:52 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: mike DOT omelia AT dynetics DOT com
CC: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
In-reply-to: <NDBBKMDOKLPHJBCNLABIGELPCHAA.mike.omelia@dynetics.com>
Subject: Re: setup
References:  <NDBBKMDOKLPHJBCNLABIGELPCHAA DOT mike DOT omelia AT dynetics DOT com>


> I am having a bit of trouble understanding how Setup works. The first time I
> used it, (downloading from the Internet), it created two subdirectories,
> latest and contrib.  "Latest" had a whole bunch of directories in it.
> Today, I ran it again (I renamed the previous directories so they would not
> be overwritten) and it created the same directories again, but "latest" only
> contained 4 subdirectories (ash,inetutils,cygwin,make)

Those directories are merely a cache.  The second time you ran setup,
it only needed to *install* a few packages, so it only downloaded
those few packages.

You do not need to move those directories out of the way; letting
setup reuse them each time is more efficient.

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