X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4518B3C3.3010801@princeton.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:59:47 -0400 From: Vinod Gupta User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment References: <4517D3A4 DOT 6070809 AT princeton DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <4517D3A4.6070809@princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 9/25/2006 9:03 AM, Vinod Gupta wrote: > >> C:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\allec.1 > >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\html\atobm.1.html > [...] > I am wondering: > Why would they set these html files as System files? > Why info-zip (or probably any DOS app) can't restore them?? > Why WinXP's internal unzipper goes an order of magnitude slower if the > archive has S files??? > > Thanks, > Vinod > As I said earlier, I am trying to deploy Cygwin on 100 WinXP machines by zipping C:\cygwin from a reference machine and unzipping the archive on 100 targets. It works but unzipping is painfully slow (takes 45 minutes instead of 4-5). A little deeper look shows that WinXP's builtin unzipper spends almost all the time in the following three folders: C:\cygwin\usr\share\doc\ C:\cygwin\usr\share\qt3\doc\ C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\ I don't need any documentation for Cygwin, nor man pages nor user guides particularly when these three folders constitute only 10% of the total Cygwin disk space but take 90% of the time to unzip. I tried excluding cygwin-doc and the setup stalled at the end of download at _update-info-dir package with an error "Download incomplete, retry?" Retry failed too. It seems there are some dependencies problems. Which packages should I exclude from installation on the reference machine? Vinod -- 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/