Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all.

Greetings, Erik Soderquist! > The automation details are primarily what I'm after, though it could > have been something like ZFS with deduplication turned on You can, indeed, achieve similar level of magic of a general purpose savings with ZFS or BTRFS. I'm using BTRFS snapshots to keep

Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: > Greetings, Erik, > > A good magician never reveals how the trick works. 8^) > > Sadly I'm not a good magician. > > It's not all that complicated, if you think about it. Each time a new > setup.ini is generated only a hand full of packages

Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all.

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Erik Soderquist wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:16:53 -0500 From: Erik Soderquist To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all. Greetings, Erik, On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at

Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: > And for those who think keeping a private mirror is trivial, let me give you > some stats. A full snapshot of Cygwin, 32-bit + 64-bit (+noarch) + source > packages (Current and Previous) is about 137Gb. Don't believe me? Your > setup.ini

Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all.

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Brian Inglis wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 02:45:32 -0700 From: Brian Inglis Subject: Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all. On 2016-11-10 00:24, Fergus wrote: 1. Use the following version of setup*.exe: 32-bit:

Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all.

On Nov 10 02:45, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2016-11-10 00:24, Fergus wrote: > > > > 1. Use the following version of setup*.exe: > > > > 32-bit: > > ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/setup/snapshots/setup-x86-2.874.exe > > > > 2. Run setup*.exe with the -X option, using the following > > > > mirror:

Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all.

On 2016-11-10 00:24, Fergus wrote: 1. Use the following version of setup*.exe: 32-bit: ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/setup/snapshots/setup-x86-2.874.exe 2. Run setup*.exe with the -X option, using the following mirror: 32-bit: ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2016/08/30/104223 Q1