RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:57:00AM -0300, Ricardo Fodra wrote:
>Does setup have to download mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 every time?
>Can't it compare the date of the files on the server and on the
>computer?  I have a dial up connection and I can only download a few
>packages per day, and every day setup downloads those files.

mirrors.lst is updated twice a day.  setup.bz2 is updated frequently.
It is possible to add the kind of functionality that you're talking
about, though.  It's just a simple matter of programming.

Unfortunately, the wisher to doer ratio for cygwin is pretty high so
it is unlikely that anyone would be implementing anything like this.

cgf

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