RE: Questions about Cygwin's setup...

["Masterson, Dave" <dmasters@rational.com>]

Hmmm.  Wget is not a complete answer.  What if my "user" doesn't want to
mirror it on his system because he feels the network access to the server is
fast enough?  Also, there is still the issue of the registry entries
(remember, I'm not "installing" it on the user's system).

-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 7:21 PM
To: Masterson, Dave
Cc: 'Earnie Boyd'
Subject: Re: Questions about Cygwin's setup...


"Masterson, Dave" wrote:
> 
> Hmmm.  The cygwin mailer does some strange things with Reply-to.  Your
> message has a Reply-to of "Earnie Boyd <cygwin@cygwin.com>".  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.

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