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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:13:52 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Updating cygwin from a remote shell?
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Thomas Walker wrote:
> Apologies if this is a newbie question... I did a decent amount of
> looking through mailing lists but couldn't find anything relevant.
> 
> I'm a Linux/Unix person by hobby and profession and don't really do
> much Windows but my family (living in another state) is still rather
> Windows centric.  A hard disk failure ago I decided to place a dirt
> cheap headless Linux box with mirrored raid on their network and setup
> cygwin on their Windows machines so that I could cobble together an
> easy backup solution based on cron, ssh, rdist, and fuse.
> 
> That all works fine and has done so for some time.  I'm a little bit
> of a security nut though (and sometime also want to be able to add new
> features for myself and for them) and would like to be able to easily
> update cygwin and/or install new packages onto the Windows/Cygwin
> boxes from a remote shell.
> 
> I know I can setup VNC and all that fun stuff and run setup.exe but is
> there an easier way?  The usual yum, apt, up2date, etc. don't seem to
> be options...

In order to install Cygwin without a reboot (and a message asking you to
close running Cygwin processes), you need a remote shell not based on
Cygwin.  That said (or perhaps notwithstanding), did you see?

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli>


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