On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > I've always just done a full install of Cygwin where I needed it, but > now I'm looking for an installer package that would be easier for > others to use. Is there anything like cwrsync that also includes > sshd?
Les, I've found with recent version of Cygwin, there aren't any registry or other issues preventing a fully "portable" (as in runs from any path/drive letter/external device) non-installation setup - IOW, get it running on one machine and then distribute via a zip file or however you like. If you google "portable cygwin" you'll find a very confusing mishmash of only occasionally accurate information, but I've spent a fair bit of time testing and configuring things without anything special and "it just works". My X:\Cygwin tree contains setup.exe, a "download.bat" to do a "download only" update to a local 0-setup-pkgs folder, and an "install.bat" to update/add to the local apps from that setup folder if needed. The sshd setup, cygrunsrv and all that still needs to be run on each client of course, and this part is what is then non-portable, but all the regular tools work without anything special needed in the registry, given you set up any path modifications, environment variables with (again centrally managed) batch files. Let me know if you want any further specific details, directly off-list would be fine. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
