Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: "Ilya Goldin" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:39:33 -0400 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <20020419174104.GH22290@fairlite.demon.co.uk> <5.1.0.14.2.20020419112106.026fc5b0@pop3.cris.com> <20020419193821.GC24047@redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ashley5.lrdc.pitt.edu X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019252378 21649 136.142.94.62 (19 Apr 2002 21:39:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:39:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 "Christopher Faylor" wrote in message news:20020419193821.GC24047@redhat.com... > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:28:19AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >I think to generalize, the current Setup.exe offers to download based on > >which packages are currently installed, not on which packages are present > >in the local download area(s). > > I hate to say it but that sounds like a bug to me. I can't remember if > this is new behavior, though. Is it? That doesn't sound like new behavior (although I'm not certain). I don't think that's a bug, though -- that sounds like useful functionality. The problem isn't that setup bases its decision of what to download on what's installed, it's that it doesn't ALSO base its decision on what's already downloaded. -jt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/