And I quote from www.cygwin.com: "If you are adventurous (i.e. masochistic) you can also download the Cygwin distribution via ftp or http using some other program than setup.exe."
Yes you too can be adventurous and masochistic, with a bit of work. You basically have to mirror the relevent ftp site/mirror into a local directory and run setup from there. Choose 'install from local directory' and when setup asks you where to store the downloaded packages, point it at the local dir where setup.exe resides. Here is a Linux script that just does that. I don't know whether there is a windows equivalant of 'copydir'. I just rerun this script to update my local distribution and run setup.exe - works well IMHO. #!/bin/bash copydir ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/release ./ \ --exclude-regexp ".*\-src.*" \ --keep-files \ --verbose --verbose copydir ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/setup.* ./ \ --verbose --verbose If you need to ask questions about this, forget it and use setup.exe in the supported way. regards, Nathan. -- 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/
