Mike McCollister wrote: > I have been using cygwin for years now. What I would typically do is > run setup to download (and not install) the components that I need > and then install them on a second pass. This worked great in that if > I wanted to burn a CD-ROM and install cygwin on another system. Now > with recent versions of setup, it it will only download new items. > Is there a way for setup to ignore already installed components so > that I can get the latest of everything to be installed on a computer > that does not have network access?
Does the 'Download from Internet' option not do what you want? > When setup downloads files it stores them in a folder something like > this: > > ftp%3a%2f%2fplanetmirror.com%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin > > After the install is completed I then delete that folder. Ooops. You just deleted your packages. You'll need to redownload them to install again. > How are > these files different than the ones in /etc/setup/? Very. Have a closer look. foo._lst_.gz != foo._tar_.gz Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
