From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28886 invoked by alias); 28 Apr 2002 11:31:40 -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 28879 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2002 11:31:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta07-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.47) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Apr 2002 11:31:38 -0000 Received: from nori ([62.252.177.21]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020428113136.RCTC29981.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@nori> for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 12:31:36 +0100 Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] by nori (62.252.177.21) with SMTP (Classic Hamster Vr. 1.3 Build 1.3.23.4) ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 12:31:35 +0100 From: Sam Edge To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 08:08:00 -0000 Organization: . Message-ID: <18lncu0uq0jh0mjjjqf3qfhet0uvhhepv9@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01548.txt.bz2 Robert Collins wrote in in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:22:30 +1000: > > I agree with Daniele. I install different subsets of the=20 > > packages on several machines. I also like to keep a copy of=20 > > the most up-to-date versions of packages that I don't=20 > > currently use on any of them, in case I need them where I've=20 > > no (or poor) access to the 'Net.=20 >=20 > So use a mirroring tool! Setup.exe is -not- designed for this.=20 Surely if setup.exe isn't designed with at least a nod to this way of working why does it have "download from Internet" and "install from local directory" options, instead of just instisting on connecting to a server every time? > If you > want a setup.ini parsing mirroring tool, take me up on my offer to help > someone leverage the setup.ini codebase to build a mirroring tool.=20 Although I've not looked at it, setup.exe must already have most of the code required to operate in the way we'd like, surely? If you tell me the module name(s) for setup.exe and any documentation about setup.ini and the local and FTP/HTTP server directory structures I'd certainly be interested to download them from the CVS server and take a look. --=20 Sam Edge -- 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/