Randall R Schulz wrote: > Chuck, > > I cannot get setup.exe to permit multiple selection of mirrors, so how > is this magical seamless multi-mirror integration achieved? Can it be > done without running setup.exe more than once?
Yes -- you should be able to shift-click or ctrl-click select multiple items in the mirror list (assuming you are using the NEW setup snapshot 20020225). > If not, what's the > advantage over separate download and install? > > Furthermore, why doesn't the multi-mirror technique, however effected, > work for separated download and install, too? Because there is no 'remote site selection' step if you are not installing/downloading. Sure, you could do a multi-site non-install download using setup, and then run setup in 'local dir' mode to install. But setup is NOT meant to be an archiving/mirroring tool. It is an installation tool. If you want a local mirror -- USE a mirroring tool. Good grief, wget has special mirroring options -- that's what I use... > Lastly, am I correct in believing that if one wants to download anything > but not install it (source, e.g., or packages used by some at one's site > but not by all) that separate download and install is the only way to > accomplish this? if the remote site provides a local version of setup.ini that accurately describes the contents of that remote site, then you should be able to select the (non-standard) site as a 'download location' and setup.exe will merge all selected sites, and download (or dl/install) the most recent copy of each selected package, from whatever location has the most recent version (incl. packages from the non-standard site). > It still seems to me that control freaks are going to do as I do: > Separate download and install. Sure. And some people (incl. me) still boot their linux boxen into console mode and only run X when required. But that's still no reason not to develop xdm/gdm/kdm graphical logon managers. Currently, there are no sites that provide cygwin packages in setup-approved format, that are not part of the official cygwin mirror system. (Because until now, you couldn't use setup to install from ANYPLACE other than localdir or an *official* mirror site). Now that you can enter custom URLs and do multi-site selection, I imagine that many uses will be found for the new functionality. Perhaps the Emacs folks (NOT XEmacs -- they already have a different solution) will create a cygwin-setup dirtree once their cygwin port is complete. Perhaps folks who have ported a package and want to make it available, but do NOT want to accept the maintainership responsibilities that go with *official* package inclusion, will create cygwin-setup-compatible distribution sites with custom setup.ini's. These are all great things, and are reason enough for the multi-site selection capability -- regardless of whether YOU actually use that particular feature. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
