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Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:14:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file
- References: <20050311035700.10375.qmail@web14427.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:57:00AM -0300, Ricardo Fodra wrote:
>Does setup have to download mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 every time?
>Can't it compare the date of the files on the server and on the
>computer? I have a dial up connection and I can only download a few
>packages per day, and every day setup downloads those files.
mirrors.lst is updated twice a day. setup.bz2 is updated frequently.
It is possible to add the kind of functionality that you're talking
about, though. It's just a simple matter of programming.
Unfortunately, the wisher to doer ratio for cygwin is pretty high so
it is unlikely that anyone would be implementing anything like this.
cgf
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