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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 06:38:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin AT impsec DOT org>
To: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug (or misfeature) report: cygwin setup behing caching proxy
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On 6 Aug 2002, Robert Collins wrote:

> Yah, it was done a long time ago, before setup became as able to
> handle changes in the ini files and so on as well as it can now.
> The HEAD code is fixed, but not the released setup.exe.

Any idea how soon it'll be released?
 
> However, there is an even better approach: share the 'local
> package dir' out, and setup will re-use the downloaded files
> automatically.

That's more work to set up than relying (transparently) on the cache.

Thanks!

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