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 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:14:56 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file Message-ID: <20050311041456.GA18668@gully.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050311035700 DOT 10375 DOT qmail AT web14427 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050311035700.10375.qmail@web14427.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:57:00AM -0300, Ricardo Fodra wrote: >Does setup have to download mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 every time? >Can't it compare the date of the files on the server and on the >computer? I have a dial up connection and I can only download a few >packages per day, and every day setup downloads those files. mirrors.lst is updated twice a day. setup.bz2 is updated frequently. It is possible to add the kind of functionality that you're talking about, though. It's just a simple matter of programming. Unfortunately, the wisher to doer ratio for cygwin is pretty high so it is unlikely that anyone would be implementing anything like this. cgf -- 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/