On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:28:31AM -0500, Michael Adler wrote: >On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Robert Collins wrote: > >> Create a setup.ini on a local web server describing your software. Read >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html. Add the appropriate requires: line to >> your local setup, which will drag in the needed packages from the normal >> cygwin mirror sites. > >I'm trying something slightly different. I have a mirror of all the >packages so that installs are over the LAN. I want to generate a setup.ini >for all those packages, but it looks like there are many missing >setup.hints. Is this on purpose?
The information is in the setup.ini file. Eventually all info will be moved to setup.hints. >Is this the responsibility of the package maintainers? Yes. If they feel like doing so. >How is the central setup.ini generated? With a perl script. >How could one roll their own? By writing a program. >Thanks for your support. Let's get them hooked on those snazzy GNU apps! Uh huh. cgf -- 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/
