We've been creating a local Cygwin package "mirror" by downloading to a networked directory and installing from there. This seems to work, but you have to be careful to prevent setup.exe from getting confused.
But now I need to change some of the packages in that "mirror". I need to build Python with threads enabled and I need to add SWIG. I've built the prerequisite .tar.bz2 files. In the python case I bumped the "port" from -1 to -2. Simply copying the python file into contrib/python is enough to make it visible to setup (although it is not the default). The SWIG file needs an entry in setup.ini, though. If you delete setup.ini, you can actually install SWIG and the other packages (they appear under Misc), but I suspect this probably a bad idea. I'd like to simply be able to update the setup.ini file. I saw some references to an update_setup tool. Is that what we need? Or should we do something entirely different? I suspect that there might be a much better way to set up a local mirror. We can even put it on an FTP server if that's easier to deal with. This sounds like it should be a simple RTFM question, which I'll gladly do. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18109-3286 : mobile:908-672-7592 O-
