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* setup.exe 2.427 problem with installation from rsync mirrors
@ 2004-12-17 14:36 Bernhard Sammer
  2004-12-17 14:55 ` Max Bowsher
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Bernhard Sammer @ 2004-12-17 14:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

*The following problem occurs when choosing to install from rsync mirror 
(I tried all official mirrors from http://cygwin.com/mirrors.txt with 
the same result everytime):

**2004/12/14 23:19:04 Starting cygwin install, version 2.427
2004/12/14 23:19:04 Current Directory: C:\cygwin\var\cache\setup
2004/12/14 23:19:04 Changing gid to Users
2004/12/14 23:19:04 Could not open service McShield for query, start and 
stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2004/12/14 23:19:08 source: network install
2004/12/14 23:19:08 root: C:\cygwin binary system
2004/12/14 23:19:09 Selected local directory: C:\cygwin\var\cache\setup
2004/12/14 23:19:10 net: Direct
2004/12/14 23:19:12 site: rsync://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/cygwin
2004/12/14 23:19:12 mbox note: Can't open /cygwin/setup.bz2 for reading: 
No such file or directory
2004/12/14 23:31:34 Ending cygwin install
**
Is this a bug or missing feature? Any suggestions or solutions?
*

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* Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)
@ 2004-12-17 16:52 fergus
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: fergus @ 2004-12-17 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin; +Cc: fergus

> Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility 
> that could be pressed into service for use with cygwin? 
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php 
Fergus 



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* RE: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)
@ 2004-12-18  3:18 Gary R. Van Sickle
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Gary R. Van Sickle @ 2004-12-18  3:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin


> > Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could be 
> > pressed into service for use with cygwin?
> http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
> Fergus 
> 

I second that emotion.  InnoSetup absolutely rocks.

What I suspect you're unlikely to find in any of these however is piecemeal
installation of stuff over the network.  And I'd wager any amount not to
exceed $10 that none will ever have any sort of "Current/Prev/Experimental"
functionality.  Dependencies, I don't know.

How about this notion:  Every package has its own installer, e.g.
CygwinSetup.exe, BashSetup.exe, GCCSetup.exe, BinutilsSetup.exe, Perl...
Well, you get the idea.  I've gotten rather expert at InnoSetup
"metascripting" and could probably write a short perl script to
automatically build these from the existing packages.

But what to do about dependencies?  Off the top of my head:
1.  When A requires B and B isn't installed, running Asetup.exe croaks with
"You must install B first!".  Bad.
2.  When A requires B, Asetup.exe contains Bsetup.exe and installs it
automatically.  Huge files in some cases, probably conflicts, ick.
3.  If the setup builder does support install-on-demand over the network,
problem probably solved.

Pros:
- Versioning becomes less of an issue.  Every CygwinSetup-1.5.xxxx.exe can
be kept around forever if somebody wanted to (actually that's probably a
"con" in the long run....).  Actual exe/dll versioning gets handled by the
installer.
- Nobody gets confused.  InnoSetup installers are as standard as they come.

Cons:
- "I just installed all 2MB of CygwinSetup-1.xxx.exe, why can't I compile
anything?!?!?".
- Tons of xxxSetup.exe's floating around, with no "picker".  Maybe that's
acceptable though, if a web page(s) get autogenerated with links to the exe
and the description.

Just a notion, let 'er rip. ;-)

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Gary R. Van Sickle


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