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 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:27:17 +0100 Message-ID: <4204-Tue09Jul2002142717+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Alexei Lioubimov" Cc: Subject: setup question: How to keep up-to-date the "skipped" packages? In-Reply-To: <000701c22674$58ebb7a0$60f8fea9@ael> References: <000701c22674$58ebb7a0$60f8fea9@ael> On Monday 8 Jul 02, Alexei Lioubimov writes: > Hello, > is it possible to update _automatically_ (_automatically_ meens that setup > will do version compare itself) not only installed packages, but also those, > normally marked as "skip" on the local machine? At the "Select Packages" screen, in "Categories" view, at the line marked "All", click on the word "default" so that it reads "install". This tells Setup to install everything, not just what it thinks you should have by default. (I intend to describe this in the FAQ.) > The reason is: to keep all needed packages as up-to-date distribution on one > machine, which has internet connection, but doesn't have (and won't have) > Cygwin installed. Ah, I see. Don't use Cygwin Setup for that. Use a mirroring tool. Regards, David -- 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/