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From: "D G" <dgun AT umpire DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 03:20:01 +0800
Subject: RE: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:04:42 +1000
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: D G [mailto:dgun AT umpire DOT com] 
> > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 5:32 AM
> 
> > OK.  For those of us who did it the "wrong" way (mine is set 
> > to H:\), how can I change the local package directory and 
> > still keep all the current package information?  Is it 
> > automatic?  
> 
> Just change it in setup next time you run it. If you want to keep all
> the cached data, just copy the directories that look like ftp%3f.... and
> their contents to whereever your new local package dir will be. BTW: the
> default is the dir you run setup from, so you must have created
> c:\cygwin, copied setup there, and then run it...right?

Well, it appears to be automatic since I moved the latest/ contrib/
and http[etc]mirrors.rcn.net[more etc]/ to a seperate drive (not in
the path) and setup still ran correctly.  I can only conclude that
the information about installed packages is stored somewhere else,
and that the latest/ contrib/ and [that other directory] are only used
to store downloaded packages.

> > On the other hand, would it be a good idea for setup.exe to 
> > tag its directories in some way, like with a zero-byte file, 
> > so that it doesn't take just any old setup.ini file it finds?
> 
> Mmmm. I'll think about this. I don't want to interfere with users using
> mirroring tools.
> 
> Rob

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