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Subject: RE: Setup.exe v2.56
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 14:05:43 +1000
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Keener [mailto:bkeener AT thesoftwaresource DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 2:00 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Setup.exe v2.56
> 
> 
> Travis Howell wrote:
> > The last released Cygwin setup version (2.29) works fine without sub
> > directories or setup.ini.

I suspect that was an unintentional 'benefit'. 

> > But won't that changes be overwriten each time setup.ini is 
> updated on Cygwn
> > FTP sites ?
> 
> Each time you do a Download from Internet or an Install from 
> Internet  - yes.  

More of a problem is that once setup understands dependencies, a
setup.ini will be mandatory. The directory structure is really moot vs
the need for setup to have accurate metainformation.

IMO Travis, your best bet is to create a patch to the current setup.exe
that reads an additional file - local.packages or some such, which lists
your additional packages that you want installed, and adds them to the
list of available packages. Such a change would be fairly unobtrusive,
seem to give you your key requirements (installation of additional files
over the "official" packages).

Rob

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