From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5223 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2012 15:32:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 5206 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jul 2012 15:32:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yw0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-yw0-f43.google.com) (209.85.213.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:32:23 +0000 Received: by yhl10 with SMTP id 10so3919159yhl.2 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.79.166 with SMTP id i26mr1449905yhe.124.1342193543031; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.25.83.73] (wsip-98-172-152-198.dc.dc.cox.net. [98.172.152.198]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p14sm7602363ani.8.2012.07.13.08.32.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50003F84.7020603@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:32:00 -0000 From: ping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration References: <4FFF12A6.5000100@molconn.com> <176672993.20120713050916@mtu-net.ru> In-Reply-To: <176672993.20120713050916@mtu-net.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00279.txt.bz2 On 07/12/2012 09:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, LMH! > > > Totally unnecessary. If you've maintained your installation for quite some > time, updating regularly, then setup cache contains lots of obsolete packages. > Would be much, much faster to just burn it and download new setup.exe when you > need it. > this sound to me that I made a mistake. I typically when got a new pc, or a new installation of OS, just download setup.exe and install "ALL" a/v package, in order to ease the future usage. but now it typically takes 1 or 2 days to finish, considering also install cygwin port packages... I'll install based on a "install-on-need" base...next time. b.t.w., comparing with a "real" linux, like ubuntu, the current cygwin package maintenance tool seems still in the raw stage , comparing with apt-get machanism ... not to complain.. -- 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