I have seen the options that allow to expedite the update process with a
command line, and the GUI is still displayed. I don't think this works
if you're trying to use these options from a SSH remote access, i.e.
you'd still need access to Windows to run the setup so the GUI can be
Ok, I take it back. setup.exe -q will work on an SSH remote
connection. It remains to be seen if it actually updates packages, but
a GUI setup display did not appear on the the local Windows display with
a remotely invoked setup.exe -q. Thus, I question if setup.exe -q
on a remote SSH
Kevin and Nancy wrote on Monday, February 23, 2009 11:13 AM:
Ok, I take it back. setup.exe -q will work on an SSH remote
connection. It remains to be seen if it actually updates packages,
but
a GUI setup display did not appear on the the local Windows display
with
a remotely invoked
Kevin and Nancy wrote:
Ok, I take it back. setup.exe -q will work on an SSH remote
connection. It remains to be seen if it actually updates packages, but
a GUI setup display did not appear on the the local Windows display with
a remotely invoked setup.exe -q. Thus, I question if setup.exe
On 02/23/2009, Kevin and Nancy wrote:
Ok, I take it back. setup.exe -q will work on an SSH remote connection.
This should work fine on any Windows version that allows a service to
interact with the Windows desktop. As I recall, that's XP or W2K (or
perhaps NT4 if that even really works).
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I was hoping someone would consider a version of setup.exe that only ran
on the command line, i.e. a non-graphical setup program. This would be
especially helpful for remotely updating packages of the Cygwin suite.
I think it's ironic that the Cygwin suite which specializes on command
line
Kevin and Nancy wrote:
I was hoping someone would consider a version of setup.exe that only ran
on the command line, i.e. a non-graphical setup program. This would be
especially helpful for remotely updating packages of the Cygwin suite. I
think it's ironic that the Cygwin suite which
Kevin and Nancy wrote:
A separate question might be, why can't setup update itself? Even, click
here to download the new setup would be a setup forward.
That is easy to set up yourself. Below is my /bin/cygwin_setup:
#! /bin/sh
dir=/
url=http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe;
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you couldn't
find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from
'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them.
If you're interested in contributing something, see
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you
couldn't
find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from
'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them.
If you're interested in
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you
couldn't
find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from
'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them.
If
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