On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:57:27PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 1/11/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > As mentioned in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00537.html>, > > here's a patch to the FAQ to clarify the section on installing snapshots. > > I didn't know whether the various *.texinfo files are still used, so I > > ported the modifications there as well, just in case. > > Applied to faq-setup.xml (the texinfo files are no longer used... I suppose I > should remove them). It would be nice to have a sample batch file that > automated > the cygwin1.dll replacement, too.
I've prettied up a batch file I use for installing cygwin-inst-* snapshots, and added stuff to handle spacey pathnames and inetd (which AIUI isn't always a cygrunsrv service), neither of which I personally use. Just drag and drop the tarball onto the batch file, or run with absolute tarball name as argument via a dos prompt.
@echo off cd c:\cygwin path bin;%path% sh -c 'echo Preparing to install "`cygpath -ua %1`";echo' echo Please shut down all cygwin applications before proceeding pause echo Shutting down any cygwin services . . . net stop inetd >nul 2>nul sh -c "for serv in `cygrunsrv --list`;do cygrunsrv --stop $serv;done" echo Installing . . . move bin\cygwin1.dll sh -c 'tar xfj "`cygpath -u %1`"' echo Restarting any cygwin services . . . net start inetd 2>nul sh -c "for serv in `cygrunsrv --list`;do net start $serv;done" bin\echo cygstart cygwin.bat bin\echo echo Verify cygwin.bat and any services correctly start before deleting old dll pause del cygwin1.dll
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