Re: Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

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"Gerald S. Williams" wrote:
> 
> We've been creating a local Cygwin package "mirror" by
> downloading to a networked directory and installing from
> there. This seems to work, but you have to be careful to
> prevent setup.exe from getting confused.
>
>[...] 
> 
> I suspect that there might be a much better way to set
> up a local mirror. We can even put it on an FTP server
> if that's easier to deal with.
> 
> This sounds like it should be a simple RTFM question,
> which I'll gladly do. Can someone please point me in
> the right direction?

What you're looking for is `upset'. The script that automatically
generates setup.ini from all the setup.hint files on sources.redhat.com.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-02/msg00028.html

The contributing packages only says "Note that setup.ini is
automatically generated.". But the full process has been discussed on
this list. Now that you have the hint you're ableto find it.
http://cygwin.com/setup.html

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jerry
> 

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