You may want to look at www.miktex.org. They have a setup program and a windows update wizard that allows you to update from a bunch of mirrors. It is open source and the source is available at their site. With some modifications it may work for cygwin although I am not an expert on this. All I know is that it was easy to install miktex and then update it later. It also allows for partial installations. Yadin. "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:43:11PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Max Bowsher >>> Sent: 17 December 2004 14:55 >> >>> Bernhard Sammer wrote: >>> > *The following problem occurs when choosing to install from >>> rsync mirror >>> ... >>> > Is this a bug or missing feature? >>> >>> It's not implemented (and never will be). >>> >>> Max. >> >> >>This calls for a little filtering of the mirrors.txt list in setup, >>doesn't it? > > Thanks for attempting this. Your problems building setup.exe are one of > the > reasons I started the "setup.exe sucks" thread over in cygwin-apps. > > It seems that setup sources are often broken and it takes a long time for > anyone to fix that fact due to typical free software scheduling problems. > > So, I'd like to move to more off-the-shelf software that doesn't have to > be supported by the anemic community of cygwin users who actually know > how to program, have time to program, and are interested in helping out. > > Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could be pressed > into service for use with cygwin? > > Oh, and I fixed this on the server side. The process which creates the > "mirrors.list" file that setup.exe uses will no longer output "^rsync:" > lines to that file. > > This should still be fixed in setup.exe for completeness but I won't > hold my breath waiting for that to happen. > > cgf >
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