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: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:45:24 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file In-Reply-To: <20050311041456.GA18668@gully.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <20050311035700 DOT 10375 DOT qmail AT web14427 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <20050311041456 DOT GA18668 AT gully DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. FWIW, someone posted a patch just two days ago with one possible way of addressing this issue: Which, of course, just proves that searching the archives actually *does* help sometimes... :-) Igor -- 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! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/