A Little Confused About setup.exe

[Max Bowsher]

Mike McCollister wrote:
> I have been using cygwin for years now.  What I would typically do is
> run setup to download (and not install) the components that I need
> and then install them on a second pass.  This worked great in that if
> I wanted to burn a CD-ROM and install cygwin on another system.  Now
> with recent versions of setup, it it will only download new items.
> Is there a way for setup to ignore already installed components so
> that I can get the latest of everything to be installed on a computer
> that does not have network access?

Does the 'Download from Internet' option not do what you want?

> When setup downloads files it stores them in a folder something like
> this:
>
> ftp%3a%2f%2fplanetmirror.com%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin
>
> After the install is completed I then delete that folder.

Ooops. You just deleted your packages. You'll need to redownload them to
install again.

> How are
> these files different than the ones in /etc/setup/?

Very. Have a closer look. foo._lst_.gz != foo._tar_.gz

Max.


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