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Re: setup trouble with "Download from Internet"


Laurent COGNE <lcogne@telisma.com> wrote:

> I'm using the "Download from Internet" facility to share the
> downloaded packages with several
> machines, but I'm faced with a problem I didn't figure before : when
> downloading new or released
> packages, the setup program (v2.249.2.5) uses the /etc/setup base of
> the machine that performs the
> download without taking care of the content of my local package
> directory.
>
> Then if I didn't installed a package on the machine that makes the
> download this package will be
> seen as a new one, even if it is present in the local package
> directory (and even I'm using
> the same mirror).
>
> Am I right to be surprised or is this a "for a long time" behavior
> that I didn't see before ?

For a long time. I do not use setup to download Cygwin packages, for this
reason. Instead, I use a perl script by Michael Chase
(http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/), which make a list which I then
pass to wget to do my downloading.

Max.


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