Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

[Gerald S. Williams]

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.

But now I need to change some of the packages in that
"mirror". I need to build Python with threads enabled
and I need to add SWIG. I've built the prerequisite
.tar.bz2 files. In the python case I bumped the "port"
from -1 to -2.

Simply copying the python file into contrib/python is
enough to make it visible to setup (although it is not
the default). The SWIG file needs an entry in setup.ini,
though.

If you delete setup.ini, you can actually install SWIG
and the other packages (they appear under Misc), but I
suspect this probably a bad idea. I'd like to simply be
able to update the setup.ini file. I saw some references
to an update_setup tool. Is that what we need? Or should
we do something entirely different?

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?

Thanks,

-Jerry

-O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:gsw@agere.com O-
-O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office:610-712-8661  O-
-O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18109-3286 : mobile:908-672-7592  O-

Re: Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

[Earnie Boyd]

Wrong list! CCed cygwin@cygwin.com

"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.
> 
> But now I need to change some of the packages in that
> "mirror". I need to build Python with threads enabled
> and I need to add SWIG. I've built the prerequisite
> .tar.bz2 files. In the python case I bumped the "port"
> from -1 to -2.
> 
> Simply copying the python file into contrib/python is
> enough to make it visible to setup (although it is not
> the default). The SWIG file needs an entry in setup.ini,
> though.
> 
> If you delete setup.ini, you can actually install SWIG
> and the other packages (they appear under Misc), but I
> suspect this probably a bad idea. I'd like to simply be
> able to update the setup.ini file. I saw some references
> to an update_setup tool. Is that what we need? Or should
> we do something entirely different?
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jerry
> 
> -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:gsw@agere.com O-
> -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office:610-712-8661  O-
> -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18109-3286 : mobile:908-672-7592  O-

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Re: Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

[Hack Kampbjørn]

"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
> 

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Hack Kampbjørn

RE: Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

[Gerald S. Williams]

Thanks, that was exactly what I needed. I can now update
setup.ini (upset2 -u setup.ini) or simply download the
setup.hint files from the FTP sites and build the whole
file. Sorry if this was the wrong list for this sort of
question...

-Jerry

-O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:gsw@agere.com O-
-O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office:610-712-8661  O-
-O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18109-3286 : mobile:908-672-7592  O-

Hack Kampbjørn wrote:
> 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