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Subject: Re: RedHat7.3 and Windows
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Organization: Jan at Appel
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:46:06 +0200
In-Reply-To: <3F4B4689.1010108@s3.kth.se> (Mats Bengtsson's message of "Tue,
 26 Aug 2003 13:37:45 +0200")
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Mats Bengtsson writes:

> Cygwin mirror (preserving the directory structure). The main
> practical problem is to selectively download only the packages
> you need, since a full copy may be to large to handle.

I wrote a silly python script for that:

    http://lilypond.org/cygwin/cyg-apt

Sadly, some packages are monolithic and thus have more requires: and
will pull in more than you may need if you rely on dependencies.

Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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