Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/02/23/12:21:53
Kevin and Nancy wrote on Monday, February 23, 2009 11:13 AM:
> Ok, I take it back. "setup.exe -q" will work on an SSH remote
> connection. It remains to be seen if it actually updates packages,
but
> a GUI setup display did not appear on the the local Windows display
with
> a remotely invoked "setup.exe -q". Thus, I question if "setup.exe -q"
> on a remote SSH session will actually update anything. Cygnus for
> Windows is "da bom" in my book. You guys have been great in your
> comments. Usually postings like this for me results in virtual blank
> stares.
We have a system that uses rlogin to update remote machines with 'setup
-q' and it works just fine. Since setup is a Windows app, it displays on
the remote machine. Of course, when using -q, there isn't much to see
but a flickering window as setup non-interactively goes through the
install/upgrade process.
Setup even returns an error condition if anything went wrong.
A couple of gotchas, though:
*) Since setup remembers the last download location and mirror, etc., it
is a good idea to use the command line flags to set these options every
time, so you know exactly what it will be doing.
*) Running setup non-interactively will bypass warnings (IIRC) about
files-in-use, so if you've got Cygwin processes running, you will need
to reboot after upgrading. You'll have to check the setup log files to
see if there were any files-in-use. Obviously, though, the ideal
situation is to stop all Cygwin processes before running setup :)
HTH
> In reply to Kevin and Nancy, sent at 2009-02-23 7:44 AM :
>>=20
>> I have seen the options that allow to expedite the update process
with
>> a command line, and the GUI is still displayed. I don't think this
>> works if you're trying to use these options from a SSH remote access,
>> i.e. you'd still need access to Windows to run the setup so the GUI
>> can be displayed. (I'm not sure on this point exactly. Seems like I
>> tried it.) I will look a the link for the source, to see how
>> difficult it may be to assist.
>> Kevin
>>=20
>> In reply to Larry Hall (Cygwin), sent at 2009-02-22 10:05 PM :
>>> Ralph Hempel wrote:
>>>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you
couldn't
>>>>> find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from
>>>>> 'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for
them.
>>>>> If you're interested in contributing something, see the link
below:
>>>>=20
>>>> OK, the update of setup is not supported, but setup DOES in fact
>>>> allow fully command line based operation. I know because I moaned
>>>> about it, collected and tested patches, and even contributed a
minor
>>>> fix to the option parsing.
>>>=20
>>> That's true but I believe the OP was lamenting that there wasn't a
>>> version that didn't still have the GUI even when run from the
command
>>> line. If I'm wrong, then I'm sure you've made the OP's day. :-)
--=20
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com
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