On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:37:45PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >The MSYS2 project keep an up to date archive with files lists for all packages > >http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/msys2/REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/mingw64.files.tar.gz > >This file is not very large considering > > $ gzip -l mingw64.files.tar.gz > compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name > 982852 9585152 89.7% mingw64.files.tar > >I was wondering if something like this is possible with Cygwin. Currently if >you >want to search a file that is not installed you must use > > cygcheck --package-query > >which I have noticed can be very slow. I would be happy to help with >maintaining >a Cygwin archive with file lists for all packages.
Not sure how you'd do that. I suspect that MSYS is a lot more static than Cygwin. I don't think package maintainers wants to notify you every time they upload a package. And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of packages available for people to download anyway. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple