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: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:37:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FAQ alert: "Can I use setup to install snapshots" incorrect now? Message-ID: <20010611203733.A22785@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010611174656.A17020@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:35:13PM -0400 On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:35:13PM -0400, Brian Keener wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Can anyone confirm or deny if the FAQ entry mentioned in the subject is >> still accurate? >> >Yep, not going to work based on what I have seen (and also some things I have >done) in setup . As we have discussed before - with its dependency on >setup.ini for the packages and the versions (ie Prev, Curr, Test) unless you >were to modify the setup.ini file stored locally it wouldn't know what to >install. > >I wanted to try to take a look at this again - because the ability to do this >also requires that setup be able to expand (allowable number of entries) on th >fly the structure (packages) that it uses to track the packages available for >install. I just haven't had time and really am not sure of what function to >use other than I have found a reference to realloc. I think I can make this work. I have restructured a lot of setup that deals with this type of thing. Adding support for directories that do not contain a setup.ini would be trivial. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple