Anyone interrested in a package manager?
Hi All, I've read the mailing lists and found some posts back in 2003 talking about porting apt to cygwin. I'm going crazy needing to use the installer every time I forgot to install a program, and also dealing with version upgrades and conflicting versions. The installer.exe is also clunky when it comes to selecting in batch etc. It would also be great to make your own repos and update cygwin locally from the repo, like the setup.exe 'local install' does, but then command-line based. So I'm wondering if there are any news on this front. Regards, Alexander -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?
On 2010-05-14 11:23Z, Alexander T wrote: [...] I'm going crazy needing to use the installer every time I forgot to install a program, and also dealing with version upgrades and conflicting versions. The installer.exe is also clunky when it comes to selecting in batch etc. It would also be great to make your own repos and update cygwin locally from the repo, like the setup.exe 'local install' does, but then command-line based. Have you investigated setup.exe's command-line options, which can be displayed by 'setup --help'? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?
Alexander T wrote: It would also be great to make your own repos and update cygwin locally from the repo, like the setup.exe 'local install' does, but then command-line based. So I'm wondering if there are any news on this front. Since you did a search back to 2003, I'm surprised you did not find posts referring to the new and wonderful command line options to setup.exe that were addede in the last year. They will do exactly what you want them to do http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00540.html Ralph -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?
Lookat http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ On Fri 2010-05-14 06:23, Alexander T wrote: Hi All, I've read the mailing lists and found some posts back in 2003 talking about porting apt to cygwin. I'm going crazy needing to use the installer every time I forgot to install a program, and also dealing with version upgrades and conflicting versions. The installer.exe is also clunky when it comes to selecting in batch etc. It would also be great to make your own repos and update cygwin locally from the repo, like the setup.exe 'local install' does, but then command-line based. So I'm wondering if there are any news on this front. Regards, Alexander -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Tom Schutter CoreLogic Spatial Solutions 303-440-7272 x6822 512-977-6822 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?
Hello, * On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:41:51AM -0400 Ralph Hempel wrote: Alexander T wrote: [Installing cygwin from a local install package manager like APT] Since you did a search back to 2003, I'm surprised you did not find posts referring to the new and wonderful command line options to setup.exe that were addede in the last year. They will do exactly what you want them to do Well, comparing setup.exe (and even setup.exe with the command-line options) with apt(itude), yum and several others and telling that it does exactly what you want them to do does not show that you really know these package managers. Of course, I have to admit that it has to be written, and this is much work (for which I do not have time), so I do not complain. I had started trying to split setup.exe into a front-end (GUI) and back-end. I did it some years ago. Unfortunately, after working with the source a little bit, I found that these two are very much weaved together, and it did not look very promising to try to separate them without rewriting setup.exe. I am not sure if this has changed in the last year, I did not have a look since then. I had hoped to be able to generate a more apt-like front-end with that back-end. (Yes, I have seen cyg-apt, but I have not tried it myself.) Best regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?
For those who are interested: You can finish mine from http://code.google.com/p/cygwin-rurban/source/browse/trunk/contrib/cyginstall (a single perl file) And there's also the super-simple cyg-apt which can only do new installs but no updates. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
