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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:25:48 +0200
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I invoke setup through a little helper script that updates setup.exe
in case there is a new version on the server.

wget.exe --timestamping http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
runas.exe /user:%USERDOMAIN%\Administrator setup.exe

Auto-update would have a nice touch to it, though.

Alex
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2010/4/15 Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
>
> On 4/11/2010 1:13 PM, Rance Hall wrote:
>>
>> The standard way to do this would be to write a script that wgets (or
>> other windows alternative) the setup.exe on the web into a staging
>> area.
>
> Firefox and Adobe do it with a separate updater program.
>
> I'm not recommending that for Cygwin, but setup.exe could be its own upda=
ter. =C2=A0It could make a copy of its own executable to a temp location, a=
nd launch that with a flag that makes it go fetch and replace the non-temp =
copy and relaunch it.

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