X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,EXECUTABLE_URI,FAKE_REPLY_C,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 19:14:17 -0600 From: Tom Schutter To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to update Message-ID: <20120810011417.GB11017@penguin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <501BD356.4080803@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On 03 Aug 2012 09:34:14, Larry Hall wrote: > On 8/2/2012 6:10 PM, J.V. wrote: > > I want cygwin to silently run the package manager and update my system > > everytime I login. > > > > I have over 100 vm's that I use for various things and it is quite the > > hassle to update every component in the system on each launch so am looking > > for solutions or ideas on how to automatically update things like: > > > > cygwin > > See You can't run the package manager every time you login, because many times you must kill all Cygwin processes (which includes your login shell) during the update. For a script that makes use of the FAQ section that Larry mentioned, see: https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_setup.bat It is not perfect, but it does do 80% of the work. It does stop Cygwin services, but it does not stop non-service Cygwin processes. The next improvement is to detect those... -- Tom Schutter -- 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