Wrong list! CCed [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Gerald S. Williams" wrote: > > We've been creating a local Cygwin package "mirror" by > downloading to a networked directory and installing from > there. This seems to work, but you have to be careful to > prevent setup.exe from getting confused. > > But now I need to change some of the packages in that > "mirror". I need to build Python with threads enabled > and I need to add SWIG. I've built the prerequisite > .tar.bz2 files. In the python case I bumped the "port" > from -1 to -2. > > Simply copying the python file into contrib/python is > enough to make it visible to setup (although it is not > the default). The SWIG file needs an entry in setup.ini, > though. > > If you delete setup.ini, you can actually install SWIG > and the other packages (they appear under Misc), but I > suspect this probably a bad idea. I'd like to simply be > able to update the setup.ini file. I saw some references > to an update_setup tool. Is that what we need? Or should > we do something entirely different? > > I suspect that there might be a much better way to set > up a local mirror. We can even put it on an FTP server > if that's easier to deal with. > > This sounds like it should be a simple RTFM question, > which I'll gladly do. Can someone please point me in > the right direction? > > Thanks, > > -Jerry > > -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- > -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office:610-712-8661 O- > -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18109-3286 : mobile:908-672-7592 O- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
-- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
