Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?

2010-05-14 Thread Reini Urban
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://m

Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?

2010-05-14 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
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 > t

Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Schutter
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

Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?

2010-05-14 Thread Ralph Hempel
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

Re: Anyone interrested in a package manager?

2010-05-14 Thread Greg Chicares
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

Anyone interrested in a package manager?

2010-05-14 Thread Alexander T
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