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 X-Authentication-Warning: Phorward.Pharsalia.Com: adobkin owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:48:40 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Dobkin X-X-Sender: adobkin AT Phorward DOT Pharsalia DOT Com To: Robert Collins cc: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: setup.exe final pre-release.. In-Reply-To: <3E8CA23C.8090804@cygwin.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > Alan Dobkin wrote: > > > > Each time I run it against a local mirror, it checks the MD5 sum > > of every package in the mirror. This is a time-consuming process > > and, unless the window remains in the foreground the entire time, > > it seems to hang. During this time, the status bar is frozen, > > the window doesn't repaint, and it cannot be moved. Eventually, > > once it finishes all of the MD5 checks, it displays the package > > selection screen and then works normally. > > There is a status bar that should be udpating. I'm not sure it > doesn't for you. I do see the status bar and it does update fine as long as I leave the setup window in the foreground. However, as soon as I click on another window to let it process in the background, that's when the behavior I described occurs. I have tested this on several different computers, including a mixture of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. > > My question is this: Why is it necessary to scan every package > > in the mirror every time setup is run against a local mirror? > > Most of the time, I am only installing a single package or a > > few updates. It seems that setup should only check the packages > > being installed, and the rest of them should be ignored. > > How do you create / maintain that local mirror. Via setup, or via > an external script of some sort? Using wget, as recommended from the Cygwin web site. I've been doing this the same way for at least a year, and it has worked fine for all previous setup releases. Thanks, Alan -- 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/