On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:41:21PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >sowiso wrote: >>and so on. __I cannot do anything about this.__ You see? If I do want >>to avoid this, I must always use the same mirror. And what if it's >>unaccessible due to a server downtime? > >Yes, when downloading it will create the files under the mirror's >filename. That's by design because different mirrors can have >different views of what the latest packages are (and thus different >setup.ini files and so on.) What I'm saying is that later on when you >do the "install from local dir" step you should be able to continue to >specify F:\CygwinInstall\ as the local package directory and it should >automatically recursively scan the contents of all the different mirror >dirs found under that directory and offer to install the union of all >of them.
And, there is nothing new happening here. This has been the way setup.exe has operated for many years. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
