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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:10:36 -0600
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From: Robert Citek <rwcitek AT alum DOT calberkeley DOT org>
Subject: apt-get (was Re: setup.exe: ... )
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At 10:26 AM 3/5/2003 -0500, Steve Coleman wrote:
>It wouldn't replace setup.exe since the initial install would still have 
>to be done but it might be a good idea to have something that could 
>check if there are updates to designated packages that are deemed 
>important to the specific Cygwin user, and notify or even just perform 
>the updates like the "Windows Update" service. One administrator might 
>grab the latest packages and store them on a corporate server and all 
>the workstations via crontab could then install from their central file 
>server thus easing the load on all the Cygwin mirrors.

On the linux side, that's what apt-get does.  And does it very nicely.  Ask
any Debian user.  Apparently, some people are working on porting atp-get to
Cygwin:
  http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net
The dates are about 18 months old.  Are there others that are more current?

Regards,
- Robert


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