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Re: Copy to a CD and distribute to students
Andrew Markebo wrote:
> Ok sorry, should have written a bit clearer.. *sigh* why do we dig
> into stuff like this when we can play with the code? ;-)
>
> Ahh well, my first thoghts where that cygwin+source were bigger than 1
> CD, therefore it might be easier for them going binaries only. How
> long will that last (the excellent size of today)? OTOH when cygwin
> climbs over 600 megs.. we are probably using DVD's ;-)
A complete Cygwin *mirror* is over 700MB.
But that includes 2 or 3 versions of most packages. Michael Chase makes
available an excellent perl script for filtering previous versions out of
already-downloaded package caches, and building lists of the specific files
to download to bring a cache up to date:
http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/
Max.
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