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Re: Questions about Cygwin's setup...


You know, this really isn't specifically a Cygwin issue.  If you are a
administering a number of Windows systems on a network, how do you deal
with this normally?  Most Windows packages do something to the registry.
Most Windows packages are updated from time to time.  How would you deal
with this issue with other Windows packages?

Maybe you need to do a google.com or deja.com search and see what kind
of solutions are available out there.

cgf

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:35:43AM -0800, Masterson, Dave wrote:
>Hmmm.  Wget is not a complete answer.  What if my "user" doesn't want to
>mirror it on his system because he feels the network access to the server is
>fast enough?  Also, there is still the issue of the registry entries
>(remember, I'm not "installing" it on the user's system).
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 7:21 PM
>To: Masterson, Dave
>Cc: 'Earnie Boyd'
>Subject: Re: Questions about Cygwin's setup...
>
>
>"Masterson, Dave" wrote:
>> 
>> Hmmm.  The cygwin mailer does some strange things with Reply-to.  Your
>> message has a Reply-to of "Earnie Boyd <cygwin@cygwin.com>".  Is this
>> intentional?
>> 
>
>Yes, it is intentional.  It's a means of keeping it in the forum and
>avoiding private conversation.
>
>> With respect to my message, it should be obvious that I'm trying to setup
>a
>> "minimum" install of Cygwin.  My thought was that, since only I in my
>group
>> pay attention to what goes on with Cygwin, I could maintain a central area
>> where Cygwin is.  
>
>Understandable.
>
>> I suppose I could send out occassional messages that say
>> something like "rerun \\my\setup.exe to update your Cygwin", but it would
>be
>> much better if it just happened automatically.  
>
>I thought you were setting up Cygwin itself centrally.  Once setup the
>local workstation would then not need changed.
>
>> Thus the idea of a pre-setup
>> central share that I (the Cygwin admin) maintain.  Also, if the speed of
>the
>> central share, it probably wouldn't be hard to make a batch script to
>mirror
>> it to a local drive (which I might write).
>> 
>
>Use wget to mirror.
>
>> With respect to your answers:
>> 
>> * Why not make setup a package (say "cygwinsetup") like all the rest so
>that
>> it could potentially update itself?
>> 
>
>Just use wget.  Setup a cron job to run weekly or what ever frequency
>you desire.
>
>Cheers,
>Earnie.
>
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