Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:16:07 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Questions about Cygwin's setup... Message-ID: <20010125151607.A21522@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5C838890A2EDD411AFB2009027CC67091A2B79@cupex3.rational.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <5C838890A2EDD411AFB2009027CC67091A2B79@cupex3.rational.com>; from dmasters@rational.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:04:30PM -0800 On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:04:30PM -0800, Masterson, Dave wrote: >Oh. Yeah, I could do that, but it seems to be a bit of overkill. I mean I >think the steps you are suggesting are: > >* Wget automatically mirrors *.tar.gz files from sources.redhat.com (or >mirror). > >* I occassionally use Setup.exe to unpackage the new *.tar.gz's and update >my central area. > >It would seem that it would be just as easy to use Setup for both steps...? As DJ has indicated, it is not easy to have an executable update itself in Windows. Earnie's method will work. Since setup.exe requires human intervention to run, you really don't have a choice as far as automating anything is concerned. Unless you are willing to make the modifications to setup.exe yourself, speculating on what "would be nice" is not going to get your problem solved. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple