From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 129056 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2018 09:41:59 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 128079 invoked by uid 89); 17 Aug 2018 09:41:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=REF, distributing, UD:zip, Tel X-HELO: smtp02.belwue.de Received: from smtp02.belwue.de (HELO smtp02.belwue.de) (129.143.71.87) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:41:57 +0000 Received: from fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.129]) by smtp02.belwue.de (Postfix) with SMTP id B145FD104 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:41:54 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:29:00 -0000 From: Ulli Horlacher To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: distributing preconfigured cygwin (was: running self compiled 32 bit binary on 64 bit Windows?) Message-ID: <20180817094154.GB9924@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0F7D3B1B3C4B894D824F5B822E3E5A17787FB4BB@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> <3110356010.20180606204945@yandex.ru> <540c62ab-2519-9f57-6565-d536d8b74ef2@gmail.com> <944481618.20180607010455@yandex.ru> <20180608133017.GB20898@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <0F7D3B1B3C4B894D824F5B822E3E5A17787FD684@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> <20180608135221.GF20898@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <49498971.20180608194124@yandex.ru> <20180709002131.GA3525@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <87d0vp7uth.fsf@Rainer.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d0vp7uth.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-08/txt/msg00218.txt.bz2 On Sat 2018-07-14 (16:31), Achim Gratz wrote: > >> You have to install Cygwin, not "transfer". > > > > I have several 100 users, none of them is able to install cygwin and > > the packages they need the official way, they are way to *CENSORED* for > > this job :-} > > If they can follow your current instructions, they can surely start some > script that does this correctly? I do not have a script which installs all needed packages. > > I give them my preconfigured cygwin.zip (or cygwin64.zip) and tell them to > > unpack it in C:\ > > > > http://fex.belwue.de/usecases/cygwin.html > > Whatever you call it, it's still cludgey nonsense that might or might > not work. Only when it's not working your users will really be unable > to figure out what to do since they won't even know what is failing. So far, it has worked for all my users. No one is complaining. > script that calls setup to install it and any other packages you need > (if not already installed by way of dependency). Setup can deal with > multiple package repositories, so you can use one of the official > mirrors as the primary package repository and only provide your package > as an add-on repository (like cygwin ports does). How do I write such a script? Is there documentation/examples about this? This install script must first download the cygwin base package, install it and then run setup with all needed cygwin packages. But at the very beginning, I do not have a shell at all? -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum TIK Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlacher@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868 70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ REF:<87d0vp7uth.fsf@Rainer.invalid> -- 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