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: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:15:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: electa cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: i want to re-download all packages... how? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 . Igor P.S. On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, electa wrote: > it is interensting... (for future CDs ;-) where i can found info on this > utility? > > "Erik Cumps" ha scritto: > > > > > If you *really* want to download absolutely *everything*, just > > > > > delete the entire contents of your local download directory and > > > > > start again. > > > > > > _That_ is plain MEAN ;-) > > > > > > > Actually, I think that was his original problem. ;-) If you want > > > > to make setup forget about what you have installed, you need to > > > > remove the files in '/etc/setup'. This assumes the OP wants to > > > > install everything too though, which isn't clear from the > > > > original post. > > > > > > He wanted it on a cd/rw... IMO that implies _not_ installing it. > > > > Why not use mkcygwget. It's what I do to create my Cygwin installation > > CDs... > > > > Erik Cumps -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/