Laurent COGNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the "Download from Internet" facility to share the > downloaded packages with several > machines, but I'm faced with a problem I didn't figure before : when > downloading new or released > packages, the setup program (v2.249.2.5) uses the /etc/setup base of > the machine that performs the > download without taking care of the content of my local package > directory. > > Then if I didn't installed a package on the machine that makes the > download this package will be > seen as a new one, even if it is present in the local package > directory (and even I'm using > the same mirror). > > Am I right to be surprised or is this a "for a long time" behavior > that I didn't see before ?
For a long time. I do not use setup to download Cygwin packages, for this reason. Instead, I use a perl script by Michael Chase (http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/), which make a list which I then pass to wget to do my downloading. 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/
