From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13801 invoked by alias); 5 May 2002 05:14:53 -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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13791 invoked from network); 5 May 2002 05:14:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qiclab.scn.rain.com) (205.238.26.97) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 May 2002 05:14:52 -0000 Received: by qiclab.scn.rain.com (Postfix, from userid 405) id 7412A24E0AD; Sat, 4 May 2002 22:14:52 -0700 (PDT) >Received: by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2011117) id AA10351; Sat, 4 May 02 21:12:54 PDT Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 22:14:00 -0000 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Message-Id: <10205050412.AA10351@pluto.rain.com> To: robert.collins@itdomain.com.au Subject: RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: from pluto by qiclab.scn.rain.com; Sat, 4 May 2002 22:14 PDT Content-Type: text X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00262.txt.bz2 > > When I read the instructions a month ago, I got the=20 > > impression that 'install from internet' would not save the=20 > > downloaded packages after installing them. Perhaps the=20 > > documentation (and/or the behavior of > > setup) has changed since then. > > It hasn't changed in years. Can you point me to the area of > documentation that suggested the incorrect behaviour to you? It's www.cygwin.com/download.html Even now, I see nothing there to suggest that an "install from internet" would also retain the uninstalled packages. I visualize it downloading a package, installing it, and then deleting the downloaded file before downloading the next package, so as to minimize disk requirements. -- 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/