From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9629 invoked by alias); 17 Jun 2014 14:27:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9607 invoked by uid 89); 17 Jun 2014 14:27:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:27:09 +0000 Received: from pool-173-76-57-124.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.76.57.124] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WwuLr-0004uW-1u for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:27:07 +0000 Received: from ednor (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C880600EB for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:27:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:27:05 -0400 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/X12oRe7AjDex8AZpFgVLg Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:27:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Package file lists archive Message-ID: <20140617142705.GD7138@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20140526201210.GB3903@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:58:25PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of >> packages available for people to download anyway. > >I would counter that Debian and others who use "apt-get" already do this, >Example > >http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/Contents-amd64.gz > >> This file maps each file available in the Debian GNU/Linux system to >> the package from which it originates. It includes packages from the >> DIST distribution for the ARCH architecture. >> You can use this list to determine which package contains a specific >> file, or whether or not a specific file is available. The list is >> updated weekly, each architecture on a different day. > >so maybe you could voice your opinion to them as well. FYI, trolling is obviously off-topic here. It's nice that you found a solution to your problem, however. cgf -- 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