From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2816 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2012 16:57:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 2805 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Aug 2012 16:57:48 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,EXECUTABLE_URI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.71) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:57:33 +0000 Received: from pool-173-76-55-36.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.76.55.36] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T2mL6-0005f0-NC for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:57:32 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9E0428003 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:57:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/c+eGBF9b7lEY8rxAPGqUH Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:36:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: semi-automated installation and/or updates Message-ID: <20120818165731.GA8657@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20120818163404.GA8853@shadow.schutter.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120818163404.GA8853@shadow.schutter.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00447.txt.bz2 On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:34:05AM -0600, Tom Schutter wrote: >I have seen various scripts that do semi-automated installation and/or >updates of Cygwin, but none seemed to have all of the features that I >wanted. So I wrote yet another batch file which can be found at: > > https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_setup.bat > >Features of this batch file: >* Mostly hands-free, except for stopping of running Cygwin > processes and configuration of newly installed services. >* Stops and starts Cygwin services. >* Lists running Cygwin processes (setup.exe informs you that > they are running, but does not list them). >* Fetches latest setup.exe from cygwin.com. >* Installs standard set of packages. >* Updates all installed packages. >* Runs rebaseall. >* Installs standard services (syslogd, sshd). >* Installs cyglsa. > >Most likely you will want to edit the configuration section at about >line 48 to change the package list, install dir, and mirror site. > >Please feel free to use for whatever nefarious purposes you would like. >Suggestions and improvements are welcome. > >As a bonus feature, I also wrote an uninstall script: > > https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_uninstall.bat > >The uninstall script attempts to do all of the steps listed at: > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all If people like these packages maybe they could become part of the distribution. We get enough requests for something like this so I think it would make sense to have something official. Assuming you're willing to provide support here of course. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple