Re: one Cygwin file

2005-05-01 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:39:36 -0700 schreef Brian Dessent in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] : cygwin web site. The minimum you will need is everything in category : "base". You may also need any packages which those depend on. Specifically this means you might need following packages which are not

Re: one Cygwin file

2005-04-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 02:23:21PM +, Lucas Raab wrote: > > >> You don't have to use setup.exe to download, though. The packages are >> just regular files that are available via ftp, http, or rsync from a >> number of mirror sites. You can download them using whatever method you >> want, just

Re: one Cygwin file

2005-04-30 Thread Lucas Raab
> You don't have to use setup.exe to download, though. The packages are > just regular files that are available via ftp, http, or rsync from a > number of mirror sites. You can download them using whatever method you > want, just keep the same directory structure as they are on the mirror > sit

Re: one Cygwin file

2005-04-30 Thread Warren Young
Brian Dessent wrote: You can download them using whatever method you want, just keep the same directory structure as they are on the mirror site. ...and if you're still interested in having a single-executable installer, there are a number of free and cheap tools out there that will take an exist

Re: one Cygwin file

2005-04-30 Thread Warren Young
Brian Dessent wrote: And, before someone rushes to tell me that's how the "net releases" used to work (one huge file), I doubt that's what the OP had in mind...those were big zip files, as I recall, not self-installing executables. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Re: one Cygwin file

2005-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:57:34PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Brian Dessent wrote: >> I'm not aware of any such thing, and I doubt it exists. > >And, before someone rushes to tell me that's how the "net releases" used >to work (one huge file), let me qualify that by saying "any such thing >relati

Re: one Cygwin file

2005-04-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: > I'm not aware of any such thing, and I doubt it exists. And, before someone rushes to tell me that's how the "net releases" used to work (one huge file), let me qualify that by saying "any such thing relating to non-prehistoric Cygwin." Brian -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: one Cygwin file

2005-04-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Lucas Raab wrote: > Are there any distributions of Cygwin with only one setup file containing all > of > the packages?? Sorry if this sounds newbie-ish, but Google isn't getting me > anywhere. I'm a dial-up user and would rather use a download manager than stay > online for days. I'm not aware o

one Cygwin file

2005-04-29 Thread Lucas Raab
Are there any distributions of Cygwin with only one setup file containing all of the packages?? Sorry if this sounds newbie-ish, but Google isn't getting me anywhere. I'm a dial-up user and would rather use a download manager than stay online for days. TIA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin