Setup starting not from zero

Setup starting not from zero

[Robert J. Cristel]

I read your 17 Oct "Setup and recovering from
mistakes" with interest.

Ok, pretend that I'm a three-year-old.  Here's my
directories with subdirs shown with tabs.  

cyginstal
	ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.sunsite.utk.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin
		release

ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fmirrors%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin
		release
	release
cyginstall
	contrib
	ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.oav.net%2fcygwin
		contrib
		latest

ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fmirrors%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin
	
http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin
		
ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fmirrors%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin
				release
			release
		release

http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin
		contrib
		latest
		release
	latest
cygwin


Of course, this isn't completely expanded in that
release, contrib and latest contain package
directories--but you guys already know that,
obviously.

Note that my original plan was to use /cyginstall
then that must have seeming inadequate so I went and
created /cyginstal.  (Seemed like a good idea at the
time...)

My question is: How to update from here in the most
efficient manner?

Best Regards,
-Robert J. Cristel
Montreal, Canada


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Re: Setup starting not from zero

[Max Bowsher]

Robert J. Cristel <rcristel@sprint.ca> wrote:

> I read your 17 Oct "Setup and recovering from
> mistakes" with interest.
>
> Ok, pretend that I'm a three-year-old.  Here's my
> directories with subdirs shown with tabs.

...

Well, your directory layout seemed mangled in parts. I assume your mailer
ate it.
However, I get the general idea - you've got a total mess of directories.

> Of course, this isn't completely expanded in that
> release, contrib and latest contain package
> directories--but you guys already know that,
> obviously.
>
> Note that my original plan was to use /cyginstall
> then that must have seeming inadequate so I went and
> created /cyginstal.  (Seemed like a good idea at the
> time...)
>
> My question is: How to update from here in the most
> efficient manner?

Merge all your "release" directories into one under cyginstall, and get rid
of cyginstal. "latest" and "contrib" haven't been used in ages. Delete them
unless you want to keep old versions around.

So the layout is:
cyginstall
    release
        lot-of-package-dirs

Now run setup.exe, specifying cyginstall as the local package directory.
(NOT cyginstall/release)

New stuff will download into {http:,ftp:}* directories, but setup will see
the stuff in release as well.


Max.


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