At 08:09 PM 2/2/2004, Chris Jefferson you wrote: >Hello. > >I suspect that this is a FAQ, but I haven't found it, so I'll ask it! > >Unlike linux / *BSD / etc distributions, it doesn't seem easy to automate the cygwin >install utility. I don't seem able to get a list of installed packages, give a >package to install from a given file, examine the package cache , etc.
For automating the Cygwin install, see <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01490.html> For many of the others, see 'man cygcheck'. >Now I think I can figure out how to get to these things, but I would personally >perfer a nice command-line package utility which I could use to automate things >(particularily an interest of mine, downloading binary patches to existing cached >downloads to avoid having to redownload). Nobody is generating binary patches right now and there is no facility for downloading these. >This would perhaps require seperating the existing setup into two pieces, a >"bootstrap" section which just installed a minimal system involving this setup >program, and then running the setup program itself, or perhaps some other method. > >Is this kind of thing not covered in cygwin because it is felt it would needlessly >complicate things, or simply because no-one has written the code? :) Certainly the latter. I expect some of the former as well. But don't let that stop you from playing. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
