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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 message of "Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:26:15 -0500") Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i386-debian-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Christopher Faylor 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 -- 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/