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Re: Multiple downloads from multiple mirrors confusion


Jay,

This is a general Cygwin setup.exe question that is not specific to XFree86. Please send it to cygwin@cygwin.com. The people you want to contact are not on this mailing list. Be forewarned, the people that you are about to contact now come with 150% meanness for free!

Harold

Jay Smith wrote:

Hi,

It sure is frustrating that each mirror creates it's own package download directory.

Thus (unless I am doing it wrong), each time I get more files from a different mirror (because the previous mirror(s) won't respond (i.e. purdue), a new directory is created and thus I have to run setup.exe multiple times in the order of the original directory creation. That seems to be the only way to retrace history and install the most recent version of *my* set of files. However, per a and b above, if I get additional files from one of those mirrors, now things are out of order so to speak.

Maybe this illustrates:

2003-01-01 Mirror #1 download creates a Directory #1

2003-02-01  Mirror #1 no longer responds, thus some additional needed
   files are downloaded from Mirror #2 thus creating Directory #2

At this point, to do an install on a new PC, I have to run setup.exe against Directory #1 and then AGAIN against Directory #2. A bit of a pain.

2003-03-01  An *updated* file is needed. However, now Mirror #2 is not
   responding.  So, I go back to Mirror #1.  However, when I do, Mirror #1
   supplies an updated setup.ini file which it warns may no longer work
   with the older files in Directory #1.  I download the needed *updated*
   file which thus goes in Directory #1.

At *this* point, to do an install on a new PC, I have to run setup.exe against Directory #1 and Directory #2 (just as before), HOWEVER, now Directory *#1* contains the most recent version of that *updated* file obtained on 2003-03-01. Is there a chance that the *updated* file in Directory #1 will be overwritten with the older file that is in Diretory #2?


I am sure that I don't understand the fine points of this system. However, it seems to me (easy for me to say) that everything should download into a *single* package download directory.


Jay



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