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 From: Sam Edge To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:02:31 +0100 Organization: . Message-ID: <4jvocuoqmm434ahrouh0opb2hifqkoag1d@4ax.com> References: <3CCC7290.706@ece.gatech.edu> <20020428223000.GB13849@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20020428223000.GB13849@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g3SN3i001096 Christopher Faylor wrote in <20020428223000.GB13849@redhat.com> in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:30:00 -0400: > If you're on the other end of a slow connection and are apt to be > disconnected every couple of hours, you will *never* be able to do a > complete install since the setup.exe will start from scratch every time > you reconnect. It doesn't matter if you chose "download from internet" or > not since setup.exe will only consider what's installed when considering > what to download. That just seems like a bug to me. Thanks. Even something like the XFree86 "basic" install can take a long time, let alone trying to install everything in one hit. Sometimes people forget that there are many still out there on creaky old dial-up connections. > If I have this right then even removing download from internet does not > eliminate this problem. No, it makes it worse. > So, I think the right answer to this is the standard one "patches > gratefully accepted". I'll look but I'm making no promises! ;-D -- Sam Edge -- 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/