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latest/setup.exe
- To: cygwin-developers at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: latest/setup.exe
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:29:53 +0100
- References: <7003-Tue22Aug2000144506+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
On Tuesday 22 Aug 00, David Starks-Browning writes:
> ...
> Also, the 4th paragraph says:
>
> If you want to manually select the packages, download them to
> your local disk, putting them in an empty temporary
> directory. Then, download the setup.exe program to the same
> directory and run it from there.
>
> Again, don't they also need setup.ini? And shouldn't they be told
> about cygwin/contrib? (Or does setup.exe work without setup.ini if
> it's in a directory full of tar.gz files? I've only tried it within a
> mirror of latest, and I know that fails.)
Well, I just tried this again, and it actually works now, no 'null'
install when mirroring just cygwin/latest and not cygwin. (Sorry, I
should have double checked before writing about it.) Or maybe it
works now because I have /etc/setup and didn't before? Anyway, one
still misses contrib, and I would argue that's a good enough reason to
remove setup.exe from latest.
Cheers,
David