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Re: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Andreas Wettergren <andreas dot wettergren at amesto dot se>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:01:23 +0300
- Subject: Re: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive
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Greetings, Andreas Wettergren!
> Hi,
> We have a shared Cygwin environment installed to a Windows network share at
> my workplace, and I have been assigned the task to update it (along with
> installing a Perl program I wrote + dependencies).
I'll just throw in a note that the way Cygwin operates discourages any
"shared" setup scenario.
If you want a stable set of packages, your only real solution is a local
package mirror.
For more information, look up the "rebase" in Cygwin documentation.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 12:58:57
Sorry for my terrible english...
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