On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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.
FWIW, someone posted a patch just two days ago with one possible way of addressing this issue: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00399.html> Which, of course, just proves that searching the archives actually *does* help sometimes... :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/
