Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
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 11:58:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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: <20050311165041.GA28398@gully.casa.cgf.cx>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0503111158170.23792@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
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> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0503111143140 DOT 23792 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <20050311165041 DOT GA28398 AT gully DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:45:24AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >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:
> ><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00399.html> Which, of course,
> >just proves that searching the archives actually *does* help
> >sometimes...  :-)
>
> So, in this case the "doer" would be a setup maintainer who could review
> and integrate the patch.

Oh, I agree.  I was suggesting that it would've helped the OP phrase the
question better if he'd searched the archives prior to posting.
	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/