Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:24:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Jim Kleckner cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Command line equivalent of setup.exe ? In-Reply-To: <3EB984FC.4080304@kleckner.net> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 7 May 2003, Jim Kleckner wrote: > Has anyone created a command line equivalent to > setup.exe ? There are times when I would like to > perform updates remotely just using ssh. Is this > practical? One issue is replacing cygwin dll > while it is in use as I recall. > > I know that I could simply copy and extract the > bz2 files but I would like to have the > installed.db file maintained and some dependency > checking that setup.exe does. Sounds like rpm... > > Thanks - Jim Jim, This issue has been raised (and discussed) before. Looking at the code, it seems that setup has an unattended mode (though what exactly that is I'm not sure, and you may still need to allow sshd to interact with the desktop, as it'll pop up a window). There are also some command line flags -- check the archives of the cygwin-apps mailing list. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- 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/