downloading individual packages

2010-04-02 Thread wefwef wefwef
does anyone know of a way to download a single package and all it's dependencies ? I know the installer is supposed to be able to do this, but I've never actually had it work in practice. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: downloading individual packages

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/2/2010 10:07 AM, wefwef wefwef wrote: does anyone know of a way to download a single package and all it's dependencies ? I know the installer is supposed to be able to do this, but I've never actually had it work in practice. You can do it by hand of course. But if you're asking if

Re: downloading individual packages

2010-04-02 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/04/02 1:18 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ...if you're asking if there's any other tool out there that understands the dependencies listed in setup.ini, besides 'setup.exe', the answer is no. Well, actually... FWIW, the following (seemingly unrelated) projects at Google Code aim to

Re: downloading individual packages

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/2/2010 5:15 PM, Steven Monai wrote: On 2010/04/02 1:18 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ...if you're asking if there's any other tool out there that understands the dependencies listed in setup.ini, besides 'setup.exe', the answer is no. Well, actually... FWIW, the following (seemingly