Cygwin Offline Install (Was: Cygwin wishlist for NFSv4.2 driver?)

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-04-03 02:14, Sebastian Feld via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:

>> New thread:
>> Does Cygwin have any requests, or ideas, what could be improved in the
>> ms-nfs41-client NFSv4.2 driver for Windows? New features?

> Windows GUI installer, which also ships a minimum offline version of
> Cygwin. Right now Cygwin install does not work in intranets, limiting
> its usefulness.

Cygwin install works fine offline, you just have to download the Cygwin setup 
program and either package arch/release directories or else a package download 
directory from an external mirror, including all base category packages, and any 
package selection you want to be able to install, to an intranet storage 
location, which can be used as a Cygwin setup mirror or download directory:

	https://cygwin.com/install.html#offline

Someone has to be responsible for scheduling, coordinating, and communicating 
about updates from the external mirror to the intranet storage.

At your own risk, you may also do the same for any *unsupported* historic legacy 
Cygwin release from the Cygwin Time Machine (possibly to support running on an 
unsupported historic legacy *Windows* release, preferably within a VM):

	https://cygwin.com/install.html#unsupported

	http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html

	http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html

Cygwin volunteers provide rolling releases of all packages and support only the 
*current* release because they barely have enough personal free time to do that!

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
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