Custom package repository in addition to default Cygwin packages?

Custom package repository in addition to default Cygwin packages?

[Cedric Blancher]

Good morning!

Can Cygwin setup.exe be modified to support more than one package
repository, e.g. first the default Cygwin package repro, and then a
company package repro (e.g. fr.pasteur.cygwin.packages ?).

Ced
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Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
[https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/]
Institute Pasteur

Re: Custom package repository in addition to default Cygwin packages?

[marco atzeri]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 11:57 AM Cedric Blancherwrote:
>
> Good morning!
>
> Can Cygwin setup.exe be modified to support more than one package
> repository, e.g. first the default Cygwin package repro, and then a
> company package repro (e.g. fr.pasteur.cygwin.packages ?).
>
> Ced
> --

no need to change. It is already feasible as you can specify multiple URLs
(with multiples -s switches)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
$ ./setup.x86_64 --help

Cygwin setup 2.928

Command Line Options:
..
 -O --only-site                    Do not download mirror list.  Only use sites
                                   specified with -s
..
-s --site                         Download site URL, path or UNC path

The default is to both download and install packages, unless either
--download or --local-install is specified.
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Regards
Marco

Re: Custom package repository in addition to default Cygwin packages?

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, marco atzeri!

>> Can Cygwin setup.exe be modified to support more than one package
>> repository, e.g. first the default Cygwin package repro, and then a
>> company package repro (e.g. fr.pasteur.cygwin.packages ?).

> no need to change. It is already feasible as you can specify multiple URLs
> (with multiples -s switches)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> $ ./setup.x86_64 --help

> Cygwin setup 2.928

> Command Line Options:
> ..
>  -O --only-site                    Do not download mirror list.  Only use sites
>                                    specified with -s
> ..
> -s --site                         Download site URL, path or UNC path

> The default is to both download and install packages, unless either
> --download or --local-install is specified.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------

The problem is that the --help list do not mention the possibility to use
multiple -s switches.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, December 22, 2023 22:21:36

Sorry for my terrible english...

Re: Custom package repository in addition to default Cygwin packages?

[Jon Turney]

On 18/12/2023 10:57, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> Good morning!
> 
> Can Cygwin setup.exe be modified to support more than one package
> repository, e.g. first the default Cygwin package repro, and then a
> company package repro (e.g. fr.pasteur.cygwin.packages ?).

The source code is available, so you can make any kind of modification 
to it you like.

Expecting someone else to do if for you seems optimistic, though. It's 
interesting that you phrased this using the passive voice, avoiding 
mention of that person.


However, in this case, this functionality is already supported by setup, 
by selecting multiple URLs in the "Choose A Download Site" page, or 
specifying the --site command line option multiple times.

See the discussion of an "overlay" package server in [1] for more details.

[1] https://cygwin.com/package-server.html