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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:31:32 +1000
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David Combs wrote:
> I just now installed 1.7.
> 
> Where *is* everything?
> 
> bin has 289 files, whereas the non-beta has 1152.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So, just how "beta" is 1.7.  "Alpha"?
> 
> Or am I missing something, eg there's still lots more
> for me to install "by hand"?
> 
> 
> Oh, someone tell me how to find the version number of a cygwin,
> and I can tell you what mine is.  (Looks like the most recent
> files in bin are 15june09, so pretty darned recent, my "standard"
> cygwin.)
> 
> ----
> 
> Oh, *roughly* when might 1.7 become the standard cygwin?  A year
> or so?
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> David

I don't think you are doing anything wrong David. setup-1.7.exe appears 
to default to just the Base category packages. The 1.5 setup.exe selects 
many more packages outside the Base category by default and that's the 
difference you are seeing.

As an aside I like this current behaviour: I have bandwidth constraints 
and problems with packages interfering with each other and so find it 
handy to start with a small core Cygwin and add the stuff I need.

I don't know how to extract what the default packages are from the old 
setup.exe: I suspect it's all the Base category packages plus others 
from a list compiled into the binary though I'd be happy if someone 
could correct me on that.

I notice that setup-1.7.exe has a command line interface with an option 
to select packages to install. It doesn't appear to be working yet. I 
sure hope it is a future feature because it would be just the ticket for 
  this issue: compile a list of packages you want to be in your default 
install and then you could reproduce it at will.

Cheers,
Chris.

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Base packages for Cygwin 1.7
editrights
findutils
login
gzip
termcap
base-passwd
libgcc1
alternatives
gawk
base-files
man
zlib0
dash
libreadline7
bash
grep
cygwin
tzcode
coreutils
run
tar
base-cygwin
terminfo
ipc-utils
sed
cygwin-doc
which
rebase

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