X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4BB674E5.4030402@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:51:17 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: downloading individual packages References: <4BB65117.7070302@cygwin.com> <4BB65E82.9060409@monai.ca> In-reply-to: <4BB65E82.9060409@monai.ca> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 4/2/2010 5:15 PM, Steven Monai wrote: > On 2010/04/02 1:18 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> ...if you're asking if there's any other tool out there that >> understands the dependencies listed in setup.ini, besides 'setup.exe', >> the answer is no. > Well, actually... FWIW, the following (seemingly unrelated) projects at > Google Code aim to provide package management for Cygwin: > > http://code.google.com/p/apt-cyg/ > http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ > > The former is written in bash, the latter in python. I'm not endorsing > either as an "official" way of installing packages in Cygwin, but both > of them do appear to use setup.ini to resolve package dependencies. Good point. If the OP tries these, best to report problems directly to the projects' sites. They aren't supported by this list. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple