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: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:27:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin installer Message-ID: <20040623142723.GA7289@coe.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <004b01c458e8$495d3a40$0600a8c0@hera> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:50:11AM +0200, Franz Wolfhagen wrote: >Let us move this discussion to the list - I answered directly by a >mistake... > >I understand your concerns very well - in that case I would copy the >necessary packages to a local download site - create a setup file that >includes your specific packages only and defaults to install everything >you have on your site. > >This way you will be able to maintain your own site in a controlled >manner, but still give everybody the possibility to run with cygwin the >way they prefer.... > >I also believe that this is MUCH,MUCH easier than developing you own >installer btw... Everyone seems to treat setup.exe as if it was a mysterious entity doing obscure things. It isn't. The download part aside, all it does is unpack and install files (tar), manipulate the mount table (mount), and run post-install scripts (bash). If you want to just clone the same setup everywhere, all you should need is tar, cygwin and mount. 0) (Assuming that an 'n:' drive is available on the server) 1) create tar.bz2 file of reference installation. Put it on a server. c:\>tar cjf /cygdrive/n/stuff.tar.bz2 cygwin/bin cygwin/etc cygwin/lib whatever 2) create a "stage" directory on server and copy tar.exe, cygwin1.dll, and bzip2 to it. c:\>mkdir n:\stage c:\>copy bin\tar.exe bin\cygwin1.dll bin\bzip2.exe n:\stage 3) mount -m > n:\stage\mount.bat 4) To clone on another computer: c:\>set PATH=n:\stage;%PATH% c:\>tar xjf n:\stuff.tar.bz2 c:\>n:\stage\mount.bat cgf -- 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/