On Wed, 3/22/17, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: Subject: Re: Very Slow Setup Parsing / was Re: Segmentation Faults To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 12:10 PM On 3/22/2017 11:59 AM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > I've now downloaded a complete cygwin mirror > onto a networked storage, done a new install, and > cygwin works OK again. However, doing updates or > package installs is (1) extremely slow, and (2) giving > a below reported permissions problem. > > (1) Slowness. After the setup initial steps and pointing > to the local install location, I get to the following display > for 10s of minutes to hours (see log excerpt farther down). > It eventually goes to the next step. There is a very > low, steady network traffic during the delay. This > storage and network is usually fast for other things, > including during actual package installs. You might want to checkout the '-m --mirror-mode' option to setup. = = = = = Ken, Works great! Hoping my mirror stays "clean."
I missed the discussions of this "new" option, and documentation is the last thing to be updated. :) https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.cli Thanks! -- 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
