Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/24/10:34:53
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:39:21PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>> Is there any way to control the versions of programs you get from setup.exe?
>> The cygwin environment is different on almost every machine at our company.
>> It all depends on when you ran the setup program. I have two suggestions:
>>
>> 1. It would be nice, if there was a cygwin-stable that had a list of stable
>> packages that you could download. This would be updated two to three times a
>> year, with testing. I belive Debian does something like this.
>>
>> 2. Failing that, it would be nice if the setup program had a button that
>> set all the values to Keep. The problem is that if I want a new package X,
>> I have to click 20 other packages to Keep, or risk an update of everything.
>> There should be a way to update one single package. Is there a way?
>
>3. Download a current state of the packages and set up your own mirror used
> exclusively in your company. This way you have full control which
> packages are used on all machines.
Dang. I was going to say this.
Actually, in a way, I guess I did say it.
cgf
(inside joke)
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