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Re: setup.exe and 'default/skip/install/reinstall' question
Ah, I didn't realize that you were suggesting changing the categories of the
desired packages to be "base". That makes a whole lot of sense. Thanks.
-Len
Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 03:21, Len Giambrone wrote:
> >
> > This will cause Setup to only list those packages in the chooser window.
> > But will the non-base packages be installed by default? I.e., will they come
> > up "Skip" or <current-version> in the chooser window? When I download to a
> > directory, and then use that directory to install, I see only the packages I
> > downloaded, but I still have to manually select to install the non-base
> > packages I downloaded.
>
> Oops, missed a step.
> When you engineers install have them select both any official mirror,
> and your local mirror. Setup will merge the metadata, making the locally
> tagged base package base, even if they are not base for official
> mirrors.
>
> Rob
>
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