Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:18:47 -0500 From: e-head To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: adding to and upgrading a cygwin installation... Message-ID: <20031219211847.GE2853@DotsAndLoops.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-IsSubscribed: yes On 12/19/03 15:02 or thereabouts, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) scribbled: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 tomatohead@myrealbox.com wrote: > > > Also, is there any easy way to essentially just "upgrade" all of your > > currently installed cygwin packages ? > > Something kind of like debians "apt-get upgrade" ? > > setup.exe -R c:\cygwin -s ftp://mirrors.rcn.net -n -q > > works for me. I have is as a shortcut in my Startup folder, so it runs with > every reboot. (c:\cygwin is where cygwin is installed; > ftp://mirrors.rcn.net is my preferred mirror, change both as appropriate for > you.) See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01490.html for more. > > - Barry thanks, that could certainly come in handy. %^) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/