From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: "Masterson, Dave" Cc: 'Earnie Boyd' Subject: Re: Questions about Cygwin's setup... Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:20:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A6F9B93.E99C476D@yahoo.com> References: <5C838890A2EDD411AFB2009027CC67091A2B76@cupex3.rational.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg01256.html "Masterson, Dave" wrote: > > Hmmm. The cygwin mailer does some strange things with Reply-to. Your > message has a Reply-to of "Earnie Boyd ". Is this > intentional? > Yes, it is intentional. It's a means of keeping it in the forum and avoiding private conversation. > With respect to my message, it should be obvious that I'm trying to setup a > "minimum" install of Cygwin. My thought was that, since only I in my group > pay attention to what goes on with Cygwin, I could maintain a central area > where Cygwin is. Understandable. > I suppose I could send out occassional messages that say > something like "rerun \\my\setup.exe to update your Cygwin", but it would be > much better if it just happened automatically. I thought you were setting up Cygwin itself centrally. Once setup the local workstation would then not need changed. > Thus the idea of a pre-setup > central share that I (the Cygwin admin) maintain. Also, if the speed of the > central share, it probably wouldn't be hard to make a batch script to mirror > it to a local drive (which I might write). > Use wget to mirror. > With respect to your answers: > > * Why not make setup a package (say "cygwinsetup") like all the rest so that > it could potentially update itself? > Just use wget. Setup a cron job to run weekly or what ever frequency you desire. Cheers, Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple