Tom Schutter writes: > 1) Modify cygwin_setup_config.bat to match your site requirements. > 2) Copy cygwin_setup.bat and cygwin_setup_config.bat to a target host. > 3) Run cygwin_setup.bat on the target host. > 4) Repeat 2 and 3 on your other hosts.
I've been doing something very similar for a while now, with a few modifications that mainly have to do with the fact that I can't expect all hosts to have internet access and the requirement that an install, update or re-install must be possible by executing a single executable or script. At the moment I'm working from a full internal mirror, but the plan is to eventually download just those files that I will need to install directly from an external mirror. The required packages and the package repos are listed in a setup.conf file. This file has the information in which order the package sources should be considered when multiple repos offer the same package and finally the packages to install. You can also select test or prev versions on a per package basis or ignore named packages from a certain package source. You just need to list the top-level packages (or entire categories if wanted), dependencies are automatically pulled in. Packages can be grouped into new categories, one of which will later be used as the target for setup.exe to install (instead of listing the individual packages). From this I create a new setup.ini from the contents of all package repos with just those packages that I need. Lastly, all packages referenced by that setup.ini plus the install scripts are copied to a software repository that all clients on the network can access (it is also possible to put the whole thing on a USB stick or DVD). As in your scheme, since the actual install is done by setup.exe, the resulting installation is indistinguishable from a "normal" Cygwin and users familiar with setup.exe can modify package selections if they want to as they are used to. I consider this important and all the other methods, some of which have been discussed in this thread, either don't offer this possibility or require extra effort to maintain it. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldUserWavetables -- 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
