From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: new setup.exe - another problem, or is this behavior expected?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5310AFE4.5030702@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <leq8ja$7db$1@ger.gmane.org>
On 2/28/2014 10:05 AM, carolus wrote:
> On 2/27/2014 5:36 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> , if you start one session of setup, select a
>> package, download it, and don't install it (for whatever reason), then
>> start another setup session and do the same thing with a with a different
>> mirror, you'll get the same package again under a different directory tree
>> (the root of that tree being loosely named after the mirror you chose).
>
> Does this mean that install-from-internet is a better choice than
> download-without-installing when the connection is apt to be broken? Or for
> combining several overnight runs to cope with a slow connection? Currently
> I'm downloading to an external USB drive which I then use to reinstall
> Cygwin on several machines.
>
> And thanks for the explanation.
Either should work OK, as the former is a superset of the latter. The key
thing is to not pick more than 1 mirror if you don't need to.
--
Larry
_____________________________________________________________________
A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-28 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-27 18:15 carolus
2014-02-27 23:49 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-02-28 15:46 ` carolus
2014-02-28 16:34 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2014-03-01 11:05 ` Csaba Raduly
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