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,
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, 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 updated
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. Downloading
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 precise:
-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.
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
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 then use cached
-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
chooser to choose
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 the clear and
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.
Just Me creates them just for the user that installs Cygwin
* 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 mirrors are
-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 Korn wrote:
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 easily think of
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
-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 setup.bz2
-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 file that
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,
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 'All' to
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 mount points for all users ('mount -s'), services generally won't
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
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