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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 11:11:39 -0500
From: Alan Dobkin <Cygwin AT OmniComp DOT Org>
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cc: Robert Collins <RBCollins AT cygwin DOT com>, Chris Jefferson <CAJ AT CS DOT York DOT AC DOT UK>
Subject: Re: Modular setup?
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--On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:44 PM +1100 Robert Collins 
<rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:09, Chris Jefferson wrote:
>> Now I think I can figure out how to get to these things, but
>> I would personally perfer a nice command-line package utility
>> which I could use to automate things (particularily an interest
>> of mine, downloading binary patches to existing cached downloads
>> to avoid having to redownload).
>
> No such beast for cygwin. There is a draft command line setup,
> but it needs quite some work to get the GUI entangled functions
> out of the GUI program, and it's low priority. There are command
> line options to the GUI.

If you're referring to Chris's cygupdate (formerly up2date) script,
I recently tried to compile it, but it requires a Cygwin::Setup
perl module that does not seem to be available in CVS.  My main
goal is to be able to automate Cygwin installations on new machines
so someone doesn't have to manually select each package in the GUI.
I don't think this can be done with the existing command line
options to the GUI, but please correct me if I'm wrong.  It looks
like it can be done with cygupdate, but does anyone know where I
can get the Setup.pm file?  Or, if there is another, better way
to accomplish this, please let me know....

Thanks,
Alan

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