Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/04/25/14:48:10
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 09:12:36PM +0300, A. Alper Atici wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:00:34 +0100, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
>>
>>Thanks for suggesting - no, I don't; it does give you a base system, but
>>that does not seem to include a GNU development toolchain of any kind.
>>(Well, "gcc" isn't found.) I need this to try my builds on - QuakeForge
>>builds on Windows too but only if you use Cygwin, and I'll need to do this
>>shortly anyway for my other project (http://www.agrip.org.uk/). I don't
>>know of a way to install/uninstall packages from like the command line - I
>>think it's all done in setup.exe. What wouldn't I give for a console one
>>at this stage? ... :-)
>
>One feature of setup program is to automatically select packages for
>you when it encounters a new version of an already installed package
>on your system. I think we can exploit this to install a new package
>if we can fake setup to think there exists a previous version on your
>system. The names of the installed packages are stored in
>/etc/setup/installed.db which is a plain text file with one line for
>each installed package.
>All you need to do is to enter an obsolete versioned line for the
>package you want to install, and then execute setup as you've did
>during base installation. Dependencies should automatically be
>resolved and selected by setup itself also.
>
>I can send you relevant lines of installed.db and you can add them
>with a single cat >> command, or you can figure them out yourself by
>examining the file named setup.ini which is created every time you run
>setup.exe in the local directory you've specified (well, in a
>subdirectory of it, to be precise).
Why would you go to this effort when you can just rerun setup.exe again
and install whatever you need?
cgf
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