RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-18 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
-Original Message- From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:27 PM To: Jesper Eskilson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:48:01AM

RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-18 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:27 AM Isn't there also entries in /etc/setup that may be needed to be able to update later on? (of course in case we would like to avoid full scripted re-install in case of

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-15 Thread Phil Edwards
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:16:03AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Or you could help contribute to the command line options for setup.exe. This was actually my first thought (I've been a GCC contributor for years), but the CVS server was so overloaded that I couldn't check out the winsup module.

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:48:01AM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Either that or something like (untested): mkdir c:\cygwin cd c:\cygwin c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/cygwin-*.tar.bz2 mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin /

RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 3:56 AM To: Robert Collins Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:16:03AM

Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Phil Edwards
The closest FAQ I could find was How do I install everything? which may or may not apply to my situation, I don't know. (I suspect it does, unfortunately.) We need to install Cygwin on a /lot/ of W2K boxes, and we need to include some packages not in the base set (openssh and its prereqs, for

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:51:38PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: We need to install Cygwin on a /lot/ of W2K boxes, and we need to include some packages not in the base set (openssh and its prereqs, for one). To save time, I've done the download from internet option, selected the things we need to

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Phil Edwards
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:03:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: But when running setup again and chosing the install from local option, I have to make the same choices over again, not all of which I remember (and it's a lot of clicking besides). Is there a method, when using install from

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:25:36PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:03:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: But when running setup again and chosing the install from local option, I have to make the same choices over again, not all of which I remember (and it's a lot of

RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
Or with the next release of setup.exe, just 1) click on the top most category's default button, till it says install. 2) Click next. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:52 AM Is there a method, when using install from local, of simply installing every package that's present in the local cache? Not in the current released setup. The next version

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Jesper Eskilson
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Either that or something like (untested): mkdir c:\cygwin cd c:\cygwin c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/cygwin-*.tar.bz2 mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin / mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib mount -f -s -x -b