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X-Authentication-Warning: Phorward.Pharsalia.Com: adobkin owned process doing -bs
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:48:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Dobkin <Cygwin AT OmniComp DOT Org>
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To: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe final pre-release..
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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


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