From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26346 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2010 17:35:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 26335 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2010 17:35:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp111.biz.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (HELO smtp111.biz.mail.sp1.yahoo.com) (69.147.92.224) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:35:37 +0000 Received: (qmail 4720 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2010 17:35:35 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.230] (reply-to-list-only-lh-x@108.7.36.119 with plain) by smtp111.biz.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Jun 2010 10:35:35 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C2B8065.5090600@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:35:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin X\)" Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly References: <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A89023617C1@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> <4C2A7632.3040003@cygwin.com> <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A8902361860@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> <4C2AA292.6070300@cygwin.com> <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A8902361878@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> <4C2AD3D0.60707@cygwin.com> <270AA78168E41541833C52448F4F34AD2373AC90@VHAISHMSGJ2.vha.med.va.gov> <20100630141511.GB20060@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <270AA78168E41541833C52448F4F34AD2373AF6A@VHAISHMSGJ2.vha.med.va.gov> In-Reply-To: <270AA78168E41541833C52448F4F34AD2373AF6A@VHAISHMSGJ2.vha.med.va.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-06/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 On 6/30/2010 11:22 AM, Timares, Brian (Harris) wrote: > What Mike and I want is actually pretty reasonable. We want to be able > to preserve the work we do in picking the wheat from the chaff (from our > point of view) to avoid having our coworkers or ourselves duplicate that > work, whether they understand Unix or not (I'm sorry I brought it up! > It is largely irrelevant.). It seems simple--at some point the Setup > program knows what was selected. It just needs to save it out and be > able to read it back in. As you mentioned in your follow-up, if what's already supported in 'setup.exe' doesn't meet your needs, you're welcome to modify it. There are several ways to grab a list of installed packages, as has been discussed already (assuming an installation exists at the time you're doing the grabbing). If you want to the dead-simple approach, then you need to use 'setup.exe' to manage and maintain your local installation. If you need to duplicate that installation elsewhere, you use the same installation directory and point 'setup.exe' to it instead of mirrors. Or you set up your own local mirror that you maintain with the packages and versions you want and point 'setup.exe' at that mirror only. Or you grab the output of 'cygcheck -cd' \ (or /etc/setup/installed.db directly) and gently message it to create script with calls 'setup.exe' with the list of packages you'd like from a mirror. Given all the existing options, it's worth your while to take a good look at them all and figure out what they give you and what they don't when matching them against what you need/want. You may find that the solution you want is simply an extension of something that's already there, saving you time and effort all around. If you decide to create a patch, those would go to the cygwin-apps list. Discussion of 'setup.exe' bugs and enhancements go to that list as well. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/