X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Oleksandr Gavenko Subject: setup.exe now fast! Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:26:14 +0200 Lines: 18 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 I recently found that new 'setup.exe' works much better. Before new changes 'setup.exe' require up to 10 minute to make list of available packages if they stored on Samba share in intranet and some quickly if they stored locally on hard drive. As I understand this change introduced in version 2.738: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2010-12/msg00029.html and author (Jon Turney) was starred: http://cygwin.com/goldstars/ By now 'setup.exe' was started in 10 sec! -- Best regards! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple