[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.761)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.761)

[Corinna Vinschen]

A new version of setup.exe, release 2.761, has been uploaded to
http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.

Changes:

- Now that mintty has become part of the default installation, setup will
  create desktop and start menu shortcuts called "Cygwin Terminal", which
  point to mintty, starting your default shell as noted in /etc/passwd.

- The desktop and start menu shortcuts use new icons.

- Remove "Prev" button from Chooser page.  The behaviour was confusing
  and unnecessary.

- In unattended mode, if packages were selected on command line,
  install only those, don't also upgrade all installed packages.

- Various improvements so progress bar shows progress during operations
  which may take a long time with a large number of packages selected.

- Fix hang when reading broken or pbzip2 compressed tar archives.

- Canonicalize mirror URLs so they always end with a '/'.

- Fix a bug which would lead to setup getting stuck on the dependency
  checking progress page in unattended mode when a dependency of an
  already installed package was not installed somehow.

- Correct the description of the -K option in help text.


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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.761)

[Jeremy Bopp]

On 11/21/2011 09:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> A new version of setup.exe, release 2.761, has been uploaded to
> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.
> 
> Changes:
> 
> - Now that mintty has become part of the default installation, setup will
>   create desktop and start menu shortcuts called "Cygwin Terminal", which
>   point to mintty, starting your default shell as noted in /etc/passwd.

That right there is awesome.  Congrats to Andy for making the best damn
Cygwin terminal ever!  Thanks to everyone involved with finally making
it the default Cygwin terminal. :-)

-Jeremy

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.761)

[Eric Lilja]

On 2011-11-21 16:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> A new version of setup.exe, release 2.761, has been uploaded to
> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.
[snip]
>
> - In unattended mode, if packages were selected on command line,
>    install only those, don't also upgrade all installed packages.

Is there some switch to restore the old behavior here? This change 
breaks how I do installs of cygwin and keep it up-to-date. I have a very 
simple script that invokes setup.exe with the following command-line 
parameters:
--site ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/cygwin --root c:\cygwin --quiet-mode 
--no-desktop --local-package-dir c:\temp --packages 
"cppunit,cvs,file,gcc4-g++,gdb,inetutils,libiconv,make,mintty,openssh,gnupg,opengl"

Doing it like this has been nice because setup.exe runs by itself and I 
don't have to remember which extra packages I want. (A next step I want 
to do, but haven't tried yet to accomplish, is to first download the 
packages and use a local package repository so I could do offline 
installations (if I had pre-downloaded the packages).

- Eric



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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.761)

[Jon TURNEY]

On 23/11/2011 08:48, Eric Lilja wrote:
> On 2011-11-21 16:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> A new version of setup.exe, release 2.761, has been uploaded to
>> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.
> [snip]
>>
>> - In unattended mode, if packages were selected on command line,
>>    install only those, don't also upgrade all installed packages.
> 
> Is there some switch to restore the old behavior here? This change breaks how
> I do installs of cygwin and keep it up-to-date. I have a very simple script
> that invokes setup.exe with the following command-line parameters:
> --site ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/cygwin --root c:\cygwin --quiet-mode
> --no-desktop --local-package-dir c:\temp --packages
> "cppunit,cvs,file,gcc4-g++,gdb,inetutils,libiconv,make,mintty,openssh,gnupg,opengl"

Sorry, no switch was added, I didn't know anyone found the previous behaviour
useful :-)

You should be able to get the same effect as the old behaviour by amending
your install/update script to also run setup without the --packages option.

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