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From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Package file lists archive
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 09:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLUZ-0iR4NR2j30UPJpmr4LfPtqBXfPtc7vh-nY3ZfF9Ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140526201210.GB3903@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

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.

Could you not just require each package includes a file list? This way you could
get the information from any mirror.

This would ease the burden of the cygwin.com site, as it is the only site with
that information currently

http://google.com/search?filter=0&q="etc/postinstall/cygcheck-dep.sh"

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-27  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-26  5:01 Steven Penny
2014-05-26 21:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-27  9:46   ` Steven Penny [this message]
2014-05-27 22:17     ` Christopher Faylor
2014-06-09 10:45       ` Steven Penny
2014-06-12  3:13         ` Steven Penny
2014-06-12 15:44           ` PolarStorm
2014-06-09 15:17       ` Warren Young
2014-06-09 16:17         ` Steven Penny
2014-06-17 14:29           ` Christopher Faylor
2014-06-18  4:29             ` Steven Penny
2014-06-18  6:18               ` Christopher Faylor
2014-06-18  6:53                 ` Steven Penny
2014-06-18 12:29                   ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-06-18 14:24                     ` Steven Penny
2014-06-18 15:23                       ` Christopher Faylor
2014-08-03 21:07                         ` Steven Penny
2014-08-04  3:01                           ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-08-04  3:38                             ` Steven Penny
2014-08-07 17:38                               ` Steven Penny
2014-08-07 17:49                                 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-08-07 21:04                                   ` Steven Penny
2014-08-07 21:42                                     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-08-08  1:05                                       ` Andrey Repin
2014-08-08  1:30                                         ` Steven Penny
2014-08-08  2:05                                           ` Andrey Repin
2014-08-08  2:13                                             ` Steven Penny
2014-08-08  3:21                                               ` Steven Penny
2014-08-08  3:33                                           ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-08-08  3:59                                             ` Steven Penny
2014-08-08  4:55                                               ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-06-18 15:22                   ` Christopher Faylor
2014-06-12 21:58   ` Steven Penny
2014-06-17 14:27     ` Christopher Faylor

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