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Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
References: <20030214182615 DOT GA20996 AT redhat DOT com>
From: jmadams AT monkeybean DOT dyndns DOT org (John M. Adams)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:45:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20030214182615.GA20996@redhat.com> (Christopher Faylor's
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Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> writes:

> I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the
> cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com.  The result seemed
> to be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files
> directly and (somehow) used tar to extract files rather than running
> setup.exe.

> Can anyone offer any explanation about this?

Well, I've never tried to install via anything but the setup.exe.
However, it is not obvious to me how to just get a single package that
way.  The last few times I tried to do that, I ended up getting a
massive amount of stuff.  Maybe some of your ftp users are similarly
confused.

How do you get just 1 package via setup.exe?

-- 
John M. Adams

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