On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 09:47:14PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sam Edge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 9:32 PM > > > > So use a mirroring tool! Setup.exe is -not- designed for this. > > > > Surely if setup.exe isn't designed with at least a nod to > > this way of working why does it have "download from Internet" > > and "install from local directory" options, instead of just > > instisting on connecting to a server every time? > > It's designed to allow an off-line mode, as opposed to having spare > copies of potentially desired pacakges around. The redownloading > behaviour is a result of a kludge to allow deliberate redownloading of > packages in 'download only' mode.
Why is the redownloading a "good thing" in case of download only mode? If I want to redownload something, I could just remove it and then say to download it again. > If we remove that, then packages won't > get downloaded again and again and again - but setup will be no more > suited to being a mirroring tool. The "no more suited to being a mirroring tool" really confuses me! How is redownloading good for a mirror tool? The only case I can see to redownload a certain file is when the time of the file has changed (or the size). If it *looks* the same, don't download it again. The only file that really should need that, afaik, is setup.ini, and I think you download that anyway? > > > If you > > > want a setup.ini parsing mirroring tool, take me up on my offer to > > > help someone leverage the setup.ini codebase to build a mirroring > > > tool. Why do you even need to parse setup.ini to be able to mirror something? Using something as wget should work, I just didn't try it yet. Kurt -- 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/
