This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: new setup.exe - another problem, or is this behavior expected?
- From: carolus <worwor at bellsouth dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:05:27 -0600
- Subject: Re: new setup.exe - another problem, or is this behavior expected?
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <lentij$287$1 at ger dot gmane dot org> <530FCBE1 dot 5080405 at cygwin dot com>
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.
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple