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Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times
I'm a bit confuse.
I was thinking that setup.exe was a sort of wizard able to download
what you want and selecting the options 'install' he download ALL.
Now I'm not sure. If I use a program like wget, I obtain all from the
repository but how match the dependency?
If I download cygwin today on this machine and tomorrow I download
again from the same mirror in another location, if I choose 'install',
setup could download exactly the same things.
Or setup make a check in the directory root where cygwin is installed.
In this case, setup have to finish with NO DOWNLOAD.
For me make confusion that today download same package and tomorrow others.
Where is the bug?
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> peterpan1616 wrote:
>>
>> I can also say that using the setup.exe and trying to go in the same
>> mirrors, using the 'install' options, ash is marked like keep and
>> probably setup do not download it.
>
> Yes, relying on 'setup.exe' to download you everything you need from
> a machine that already has Cygwin installed is not a recipe for
> success. 'setup.exe' is not a mirroring tool. It will only download
> packages selected that need to be updated or that aren't installed,
> based on the mirrors selected. If you've chosen more than 1 mirror
> and/or have Cygwin packages installed on the machine you're doing the
> downloading with, you're limiting the packages that will be downloaded
> from any mirror. If you want to make sure you get a full set of
> packages from any mirror, use a mirroring tool like 'wget' or 'curl'.
> You'll have better success.
>
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> 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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