On 2/27/2014 5:36 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: , if you start one session of setup, select a
package, download it, and don't install it (for whatever reason), then start another setup session and do the same thing with a with a different mirror, you'll get the same package again under a different directory tree (the root of that tree being loosely named after the mirror you chose).
Does this mean that install-from-internet is a better choice than download-without-installing when the connection is apt to be broken? Or for combining several overnight runs to cope with a slow connection? Currently I'm downloading to an external USB drive which I then use to reinstall Cygwin on several machines.
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