X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux .... References: <43CEFCF4.9050605@HiWAAY.net> <87psmo8y3r.fsf@peder.flower> <43CFAB59.3050803@HiWAAY.net> <87zmls2far.fsf@peder.flower> <43D02687.7060800@HiWAAY.net> <87zmlqtxvl.fsf@peder.flower> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:46:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Joshua Daniel Franklin's message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:16:45 -0800") Message-ID: <871wz1ykvb.fsf@peder.flower> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Joshua Daniel Franklin writes: > Jan, cyg-apt appears to be able to install packages on Cygwin as > well as Linux. Yes. > Do you know if it has regularly been used in such a manner? I'm using it, but I haven't had any success or bug reports. >The biggest concern would be that if running under Cygwin it would >not be able to install cygwin1.dll. Right. You cannot upgrade cygwin1.dll or python on Cygwin and there even was no check for that. Fixed. > While setup.exe is the only supported way of installing packages on > Cygwin, I would like to add this information to the FAQ as another > option for users who cannot use setup.exe to select packages (linux > or blindness have come up several times). Maybe it's too early for that. Also, cyg-apt is end of life. It is to be replaced by a similar script based on our new Grand Unified Binaries (GUB), but that has only partial Cygwin support, and no support yet for downloading, caching and client-side use. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- 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/