> From: Sam Steingold
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:54 PM
> > * chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-20 16:04:50 +0100]:
> >
> > Personally I would perfer a system where the setup program simply
> > kept a central cache, rather than a seperate cache for each mirror
>
> Indeed!
> While I can eas
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 20 April 2004 17:16
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> -Original Message-
> >> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >> Sent: 20 April 2004 16:23
> >
> >> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave
> * chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-20 16:04:50 +0100]:
>
> Personally I would perfer a system where the setup program simply kept
> a central cache, rather than a seperate cache for each mirror
Indeed!
While I can easily think of some reasons to keep per-mirror caches
(e.g., what if the mirror
At 11:40 PM 4/19/2004, you wrote:
>From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>
>Subject: Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe
>
>
>> "All Users" creates all the necessary default mount points for all users
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>> Sent: 20 April 2004 16:23
>
>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> > To be fair, the title bar says "Choose Download Site(s)",
>> but that really
>> > doesn't override t
> -Original Message-
> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 20 April 2004 16:23
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> > To be fair, the title bar says "Choose Download Site(s)",
> but that really
> > doesn't override the clear and explicit instruction
> immediately above the
> > choos
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Collins
> > Sent: 20 April 2004 15:53
>
> See, now all the secrets are coming out!
>
> > That is why the choose mirror dialog allows you to choose multiple
> > mirrors. Setup will the
Robert Collins wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 22:11, Rodrigo Medina wrote:
Hi all,
Rodrigo Medina (myself) wrote:
2- When you are downloading into a temporal directory, SETUP
downloads the packages even if they are already in the temporal
directory but are still not installed.
I have
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Collins
> Sent: 20 April 2004 15:53
See, now all the secrets are coming out!
> That is why the choose mirror dialog allows you to choose multiple
> mirrors. Setup will then use cached copies from any of the chosen
> mirrors.
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 22:11, Rodrigo Medina wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Rodrigo Medina (myself) wrote:
> >2- When you are downloading into a temporal directory, SETUP
> >downloads the packages even if they are already in the temporal
> >directory but are still not installed.
>
> I have to be more precis
How about command-line switches for unattended installation? This
would be useful for deploying Cygwin in any non-toy environment.
It should be as simple as applying Edward Peschko's patches:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00261.html
The "-a" option is the vital one. Downloadin
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Rodrigo Medina wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My whishes for SETUP:
>
> 1- In the list of packages include its size. It is very important
> for people with slow connexions, so they can easily program
> what to download and in which order. For example you may decide
> not to download an
Hi all,
Rodrigo Medina (myself) wrote:
>2- When you are downloading into a temporal directory, SETUP
>downloads the packages even if they are already in the temporal
>directory but are still not installed.
I have to be more precise:
SETUP does check if the package has been already downloaded but
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:46:08AM -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote:
> 1- In the list of packages include its size. It is very important
> for people with slow connexions, so they can easily program
> what to download and in which order. For example you may decide
> not to download an updated 16MB fonts
Hi all,
My whishes for SETUP:
1- In the list of packages include its size. It is very important
for people with slow connexions, so they can easily program
what to download and in which order. For example you may decide
not to download an updated 16MB fonts package with minor changes.
Right now y
From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe
> "All Users" creates all the necessary default mount points for all users.
> "Just Me" creates them just for the user that installs Cygwin. Without
> the moun
At 10:47 PM 4/19/2004, you wrote:
>Since the topic is a patch to setup.exe, let me restate an earlier oversight
>with it that I mentioned, and add a new one I've discovered through hours of
>trial and error...
>
>The first of these is an issue with changing the install options from
>"default" on 'A
Since the topic is a patch to setup.exe, let me restate an earlier oversight
with it that I mentioned, and add a new one I've discovered through hours of
trial and error...
The first of these is an issue with changing the install options from
"default" on 'All' to "Install". When you do this, set
> -Original Message-
> From: Shish
> Sent: 19 April 2004 15:21
> To: Dave Korn
[Conversation restored to the list address]
> > > o) Cache mirrors.lst and setup.bz2
> > Deep disagreement, about setup.bz2 at any rate. If you
> ever attempt to do
> > a setup with an out-of-date setup.bz2
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Shish
> Sent: 19 April 2004 14:48
> o) Cache mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 - if they're already
> there, ask me if I want
> to update. Even using the "back" and "next" buttons causes it to be
> re-downloaded
Deep disagreement, about s
o) An "approximate time remaining" field in the download progress window would
be nice - you're got the total size, size done, and download speed; Adding this
field should be a single simple equation.
o) Cache mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 - if they're already there, ask me if I want
to update. Even u
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