From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9360 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2001 14:23:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9338 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 14:23:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO itdomain003.itdomain.net.au) (203.63.157.208) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 14:23:56 -0000 Received: from lifelesswks ([144.137.125.35]) by itdomain003.itdomain.net.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.3779); Thu, 6 Dec 2001 01:23:55 +1100 Message-ID: <01b401c17d98$78890070$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: , "John Daniel Doucette" References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011205101337.00a01ec0@jjmackay.ca> Subject: Re: setup.exe Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:28:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Dec 2001 14:23:55.0383 (UTC) FILETIME=[78890070:01C17D98] X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00241.txt.bz2 === ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Daniel Doucette" To: Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:19 AM Subject: setup.exe > Hi, > > How you tell setup.exe to download to a local directory the absolute latest > of EVERYTHING. You don't. This is in the list archives at least 10 times within the last week. There's also _no way_ in the future that you will be able to do this. It simply does not make sense when you have packages that conflict with each other. If you want to mirror cygwin's install files, use a mirroring tool. Many exist for both win32 and un*x. Setup is not such a tool, although it does have *limited* mirroring capability. If you use setup.exe it will download the most recent stable version of everything you have installed as it's default behaviour. There are changes in the works to make a happy middle ground the default, but we're not there yet. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/