Rob -- Thanks for the information. I'm downloading now.
It was the presence of /etc/setup that was messing up my earlier attempts. -Brian Robert Collins wrote: >For the archives.... > >Downloading *everything* with setup.exe. > >First-off, setup.exe uses information contained in /etc/setup/ to >determine whats pacakges are not installed, and then looks in your >'local package dir' at *every mirror site you chose* to determine what >is missing and needs downloading. So choosing >+ All () install >at the top level, will on a system that does not have a /etc/setup, >result in downloading *everything* (for the current stability >(prev/curr/test)). > >So.. how does one download everything again? >1) Run setup,exe choose download only, change the top level to >'retrieve'. This will force a download even if the file is on your local >system >2) Run setup.exe again, choose down only, change the top level to >'install'. This will download every available package that is not >current installed. > >Some hints: >*) Don't delete your local package dir. Cygwin setup uses it. >*) Really, don't delete it. >*) If you want to clear it out a bit, consider writing a perl script, or >setup.exe patch to remove package tarballs from specific mirrors that >aren't listed in setup.ini. > > >Rob -- 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/
