----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:41 AM Subject: Re: Setup.exe: all files in one common directory? (not per-server)
> 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.) Yes, and that's another bad point about it! Different setup.ini files! What's the idea? Why not one and the same setup.ini which can be read by _any_ mirror? That's exactly to prevent the left hand not knowing about what the right is doing or has done. Just for sharing "charity" for mirror servers which like to do their thing this does *not* justify the use of N setup.ini's imho. (N = number of mirrors visited) > 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. Nice, nice ... but sometimes I also *do* want to install manually without setup, e. g. sources. And always having to use Windows search or *nix find first which mirror the package has been assigned to this time is not really that "cool". F:\CygwinInstall\release. That would be the sh*t.. And *all* packages going in there. And one setup.ini. That's the best solution IMHO. -Andreas -- 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/
