From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19162 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2002 16:00:25 -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 18969 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 16:00:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uhura.concentric.net) (206.173.118.93) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 16:00:09 -0000 Received: from cliff.concentric.net (cliff.concentric.net [206.173.118.90]) by uhura.concentric.net [Concentric SMTP Routing 1.0] id g21G08B26194 ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:00:08 -0500 (EST) Errors-To: Received: from Clemens.cris.com (da003d0327.sjc-ca.osd.concentric.net [64.1.1.72]) by cliff.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id LAA19265; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:00:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020301075448.00aaf730@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:00:00 -0000 To: Charles Wilson From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: "local install"? Cc: Markus Hoenicka , cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <3C7FA2A1.1090208@ece.gatech.edu> References: <20020301101318.16349.qmail@oak.oeko.net> <20020301101318.16349.qmail@oak.oeko.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020301073006.024b18c8@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 Chuck, I cannot get setup.exe to permit multiple selection of mirrors, so how is this magical seamless multi-mirror integration achieved? Can it be done without running setup.exe more than once? If not, what's the advantage over separate download and install? Furthermore, why doesn't the multi-mirror technique, however effected, work for separated download and install, too? Lastly, am I correct in believing that if one wants to download anything but not install it (source, e.g., or packages used by some at one's site but not by all) that separate download and install is the only way to accomplish this? It still seems to me that control freaks are going to do as I do: Separate download and install. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 07:47 2002-03-01, Charles Wilson wrote: >Randall R Schulz wrote: > > >>I don't understand this. You get maximum flexibility by separate >>"Download from Internet" and "Install from Local Directory" operations. >>That way you can download sources and have them at hand without >>unconditionally installing them. >> >>By copying my local installation cache to a CD, I can save others very >>large downloads. I cannot see this as a loss of functionality. >> >>Can you tell me some functionality only available when one uses "Install >>from Internet?" > > >Sure: merging multiple "mirrors" into a seamless single-view >installation. (Or, merging an official mirror site + "Bob's archive of >cool cygwin packages" + "My company's local cygwin ports" into a single, >always-up-to-date single seamless installation). Sure, you could manually >download the packages you are interested in from all 27 sites, merge them >into a single local repo, and then do 'install-from-local' -- but setup's >"extra functionality" automatically handles that stuff for you -- just >point-n-click. > >--Chuck -- 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/