Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:45:24AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > FWIW, someone posted a patch just two days ago with one possible way of
> > addressing this issue:
> > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00399.html> Which, of course,
> > just proves that searching the archives actually *does* help
> > sometimes...  :-)
>
> So, in this case the "doer" would be a setup maintainer who could review
> and integrate the patch.

Actually, that patch (which I have glanced at but not reviewed carefully) 
does not actually help at all in this situation. It does avoid the download 
of mirrors.lst, by having the user to manually specify an URL, but it does 
nothing whatsoever for setup.bz2, which is much bigger anyway.

Max.


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