Greetings, Paul! > As I mentioned in my original message, I tried to create a directory of > installation packages that mirror my current cygwin installation so that I can > install the same packages on another PC. Say the original path for the > installation packages was c:/cygwin/LocalPkg. For the downloaded packages > from > which I would create an installation CD, I created c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg. > I > chose "Download without installing" in setup.exe and "Reinstall" in the Select > Packages phase. However, the download fails repeatedly regardless of the > mirror > specified. Fortunately, in the initial download attempt, most of the download > was completed before the failure. In order to fetch only the missing > packages, > I identified the missing packages as:
> _autorebase 000164-1 > _update-info-dir 01088-1 > libpoppler19 0.18.4-2 > Unfortunately, I can only select Keep or Uninstall. There is no choice to > Reinstall regardless of whether the Keep or Cur radio buttons are selected. > Why > would this be, and how can I select Reinstall so that the packages are > downloaded into c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg? > If there is no solution to that, would it be a good idea to simply copy the > corresponding folder from the actual local package directory > c:/cygwin/LocalPkg > to the corresponding location in c:/cygwin/LocalPkg/pkgImg? I can't just test > this on a whim because I have to prepare the CD at home then arrange for an > administrator to install it in the office. Simple solution would be to remove these packages from cache and download them anew, when you doing a new install. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 28.11.2012, <12:58> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
