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 Message-ID: <027201c286bb$109b8870$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20021107101725 DOT 0299c540 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20021107104402 DOT 02c06c10 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> Subject: Alternate Cygwin download methods (was Re: NO huge packages, please!) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:09:11 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > At 10:38 2002-11-07, Peter A. Castro wrote: >> Except that they end up either having to craft the commands to pull >> only those package directories they really want, or pull the whole >> she-bang. Again, not ideal. If I get time, I'll look at Setup and >> see what it might take to add this "feature" (no guarantees, though). Randall R Schulz wrote: > Well, that's what shell scripts are for, right? Personally, I have a > very low threshold of reuse or repetition before I dash off a script > to relieve me of "manual" effort. I just hate repeating myself! > > Be sure to review Max Bowsher's recent mail about the Setup code. > Apparently it (Setup's source) is in slight disarray with some ongoing > enhancements in progress. I thought I might as well mention my download method: I wrote a little script to get a setup.ini file from a mirror, and then use Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl to make a list of URLs to get, and pass that to wget. I then invoke clean_setup.pl again, which tidys the files away into their correct location in the directory tree. The great advantage is:- You can mirror only [curr] files, and clean_setup can delete/move files as the become [prev]. Plus, you can exclude packages by globbing on the package name. Max. -- 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/