On 12/14/2010 04:21 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
Cygwin Ports, at http://sourceware.org/cygwinports. A quite amazing
repository of additional Cygwin packages, all maintained by Yaakov.
Thanks to recent improvements to Cygwin's setup.exe by Jon Turney, the
timestamp hack shown on the Ports website is no longer needed, i.e.
the steps required now are:
1. Download the latest Cygwin setup.exe from http://cygwin.com.
2. Launch setup.exe with the -X flag (for allowing unsigned
repositories). A convenient way to do this is to create a setup.exe
shortcut and add the -X to its target.
3. Add and select ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports or one of its
mirrors (http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html) in the mirror list.
(Official mirrors and Ports ones can be selected at the same time;
just hold Ctrl while doing so. Unfortunately there's currently no way
to tell apart different repositories on the same mirror, but Jon is
working on that as well.)
4. Select the packages of your choice and install.
Ports issues should be discussed on the cygwin-ports-general mailing
list.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm working on a Perl script to gather
information about systems and store it in a MySQL database. As such I
can't always be sure that Cygwin (thus Perl and even DBI, DBD and MySQL)
will be there. Installing DBI and DBD is pretty simply with cpan and to
me Cygwin's a no brainer. But having to install a port of the
mysql-client stuff seems like hacking a bit to far. Any particular
reason why mysql-client is not an official (perhaps optionally
installed) part of Cygwin by now?
I remember working with this a while back (years back actually) and
there was a separate mysql package that somebody put together (probably
from cygports). I just would have thought that by now it would have been
put into Cygwin in a more official manner.
Any thoughts about how to do this without Cygwin (I know, not Cygwin
related then and I'd probably need to get some sort of Perl - can you
say ActiveState! Yuck - and install some Windows based mysql libs or
something like that... Yuck. Cygwin's just so much nicer. Wish mysql was
simply YA Cygwin package).
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