RE: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the skipped packages?

RE: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the skipped packages?

[lhall]

Mirroring software (i.e. wget, etc) is better suited for this task.

Larry

Original Message:
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From: Alexei Lioubimov e-complex@mtu-net.ru
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:41:05 +0400
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the "skipped" packages?


Hello,
is it possible to update _automatically_ (_automatically_ meens that setup
will do version compare itself) not only installed packages, but also those,
normally marked as "skip" on the local machine?

The reason is: to keep all needed packages as up-to-date distribution on one
machine, which has internet connection, but doesn't have (and won't have)
Cygwin installed.

Thank you.
Alexei Lioubimov


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Re: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the skipped packages?

[Max Bowsher]

lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com wrote:
> Mirroring software (i.e. wget, etc) is better suited for this task.

Unless you don't want to keep prev versions on disc.

There is an item in the setup.exe todo list about setup using 'cached' rather
than 'installed' as its criterion when in download only mode.

> Original Message: From: Alexei Lioubimov e-complex@mtu-net.ru
>> Hello, is it possible to update _automatically_ (_automatically_ meens that
>> setup will do version compare itself) not only installed packages, but also
>> those, normally marked as "skip" on the local machine?




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Re: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the skipped packages?

[Robert Collins]

That TODO list item would not meet Alexei's requirements (to handle skipped
packages), and a mirroring tool will delete old versions.

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the skipped packages?


> lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com wrote:
> > Mirroring software (i.e. wget, etc) is better suited for this task.
>
> Unless you don't want to keep prev versions on disc.
>
> There is an item in the setup.exe todo list about setup using 'cached'
rather
> than 'installed' as its criterion when in download only mode.
>
> > Original Message: From: Alexei Lioubimov e-complex@mtu-net.ru
> >> Hello, is it possible to update _automatically_ (_automatically_ meens
that
> >> setup will do version compare itself) not only installed packages, but
also
> >> those, normally marked as "skip" on the local machine?
>
>
>
>
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Re: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the skipped packages?

[Max Bowsher]

Robert Collins wrote:
> That TODO list item would not meet Alexei's requirements (to handle
> skipped packages), ...

I think it might - the packages wouldn't be skipped once the criterion was
'cached' as opposed to 'installed'.

Max.



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Re: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the skipped packages?

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the skipped packages?


> Robert Collins wrote:
> > That TODO list item would not meet Alexei's requirements (to handle
> > skipped packages), ...
>
> I think it might - the packages wouldn't be skipped once the criterion was
> 'cached' as opposed to 'installed'.

You are interpreting the TODO differently to me. I interpret as showing
installed versions that are cached with their cached version, not as showing
them as installed.

Still, good point for me to think on..

Rob


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Re: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the skipped packages?

[Alexei Lioubimov]

I'm interpreting "cached" and "installed" criterion in  Max Bowsher's way.
So it'll be nice to choose between this items when "downloading from
Internet".
(mainly it was the thing I was asking about and, to tell the truth, was not
ready
to get the answer about standalone mirroring tools).

Alexei.

>Robert Collins wrote:
>> That TODO list item would not meet Alexei's requirements (to handle
>> skipped packages), ...
>
>I think it might - the packages wouldn't be skipped once the criterion was
>'cached' as opposed to 'installed'.
>
>Max.




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Re: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the "skipped" packages?

[Alexei Lioubimov]

Hello David,
thank you for the answer.

Can you give some practical tips for using wget or some other mirroring
tool, cause i've never tried any of them before.

Alexei Lioubimov

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
To: "Alexei Lioubimov" <e-complex@mtu-net.ru>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the "skipped" packages?


> On Monday 8 Jul 02, Alexei Lioubimov writes:
> > Hello,
> > is it possible to update _automatically_ (_automatically_ meens that
setup
> > will do version compare itself) not only installed packages, but also
those,
> > normally marked as "skip" on the local machine?
>
> At the "Select Packages" screen, in "Categories" view, at the line
> marked "All", click on the word "default" so that it reads "install".
> This tells Setup to install everything, not just what it thinks you
> should have by default.  (I intend to describe this in the FAQ.)
>
> > The reason is: to keep all needed packages as up-to-date distribution on
one
> > machine, which has internet connection, but doesn't have (and won't
have)
> > Cygwin installed.
>
> Ah, I see.  Don't use Cygwin Setup for that.  Use a mirroring tool.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>


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setup question: How to keep up-to-date the "skipped" packages?

[David Starks-Browning]

On Monday 8 Jul 02, Alexei Lioubimov writes:
> Hello,
> is it possible to update _automatically_ (_automatically_ meens that setup
> will do version compare itself) not only installed packages, but also those,
> normally marked as "skip" on the local machine?

At the "Select Packages" screen, in "Categories" view, at the line
marked "All", click on the word "default" so that it reads "install".
This tells Setup to install everything, not just what it thinks you
should have by default.  (I intend to describe this in the FAQ.)

> The reason is: to keep all needed packages as up-to-date distribution on one
> machine, which has internet connection, but doesn't have (and won't have)
> Cygwin installed.

Ah, I see.  Don't use Cygwin Setup for that.  Use a mirroring tool.

Regards,
David


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setup question: How to keep up-to-date the "skipped" packages?

[Alexei Lioubimov]

Hello,
is it possible to update _automatically_ (_automatically_ meens that setup
will do version compare itself) not only installed packages, but also those,
normally marked as "skip" on the local machine?

The reason is: to keep all needed packages as up-to-date distribution on one
machine, which has internet connection, but doesn't have (and won't have)
Cygwin installed.

Thank you.
Alexei Lioubimov


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