Can someone help me with some info about setup.exe? I have a slow internet connection and downloading a full Cygwin takes a couple days (with about 30% chance of success.) I also have to reinstall Cygwin frequently when Windows is reinstalled on my various machines. And I want to keep my Cygwin instances up to date.
I know I can (and currently do) use setup.exe to download as a separate step and install from the download directory but there are some problems keeping the download directory up to date... - setup.exe's idea of what to download seems to depend on what is installed on the download machine. Is there some way to tell setup.exe to only download new/updated packages that are not already in the download directory, and not pay any attention to what is installed? I find it a very confusing program to use. - In perusing the cygwin website I got the idea that the appropriate way to do this is to create a local mirror of the distribution. OK, but I don't want or have space for "prev" versions, or source code packages. Will setup.exe work with such a partial mirror? - Does such a mirror have to be served from a http/ftp server or are files in a directory ok? - Is there any difference between the download directory created by setup.exe, and a mirror of one of the distribution sites (other than the packages present, of course)? - Can I manually build and maintain a directory that looks a setup.exe created download directory, and simply install from that? - Has anyone written a script to do this? Any advice on maintaining a local, up-to-date, cygwin distribution I can reinstall from, without the profligate use of disk space or bandwidth, will be greatly appreciated!! (Yes, I tried the buy-a-CD approach but that did not work out for a number of reasons.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
