Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Sam Edge To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 12:31:35 +0100 Organization: . Message-ID: <18lncu0uq0jh0mjjjqf3qfhet0uvhhepv9@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g3SBWIj18224 Robert Collins wrote in in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:22:30 +1000: > > I agree with Daniele. I install different subsets of the > > packages on several machines. I also like to keep a copy of > > the most up-to-date versions of packages that I don't > > currently use on any of them, in case I need them where I've > > no (or poor) access to the 'Net. > > So use a mirroring tool! Setup.exe is -not- designed for this. Surely if setup.exe isn't designed with at least a nod to this way of working why does it have "download from Internet" and "install from local directory" options, instead of just instisting on connecting to a server every time? > If you > want a setup.ini parsing mirroring tool, take me up on my offer to help > someone leverage the setup.ini codebase to build a mirroring tool. Although I've not looked at it, setup.exe must already have most of the code required to operate in the way we'd like, surely? If you tell me the module name(s) for setup.exe and any documentation about setup.ini and the local and FTP/HTTP server directory structures I'd certainly be interested to download them from the CVS server and take a look. -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/