Robert Collins wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:47:16 +1000:
> The *redownloading* is a bug, and will get fixed. Okay. Good. > The 'I want to mirror > > non-installed packages by using download' is not. Actually, the re-download fix would go 90% of the way to doing this anyway, since you could just reselect everything you want again and again and it'd eventually have the lot even on a slow link. > A 'normal' install - download and install - works fine, no problems. Read my and Christopher Faylor's posts especially <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> where we explain where for some people download and install with the current version of setup.exe does not work fine. Even a single package such as the XFree86-fnts one can be a trial on dial-up connections, taking the best part of an hour. A clean minimum install of the Cygwin environment takes about the same, I think. A model that didn't allow multiple download sessions before a single install one would effectively bar many dial-up users from installing Cygwin and/or XFree86 at all. The selective mirroring and local FTP server route would simply be too much hassle for many just to evaluate something. > A reference for this is > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-11/msg00271.html. Ah. Exactly. :-) So is it worth my while looking at the code with an eye to providing a patch for this (specifically the checkbox option) or is it work in progress elsewhere? -- Sam Edge -- 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/
