On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:39:21PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: > Is there any way to control the versions of programs you get from setup.exe? > The cygwin environment is different on almost every machine at our company. > It all depends on when you ran the setup program. I have two suggestions: > > 1. It would be nice, if there was a cygwin-stable that had a list of stable > packages that you could download. This would be updated two to three times a > year, with testing. I belive Debian does something like this. > > 2. Failing that, it would be nice if the setup program had a button that > set all the values to Keep. The problem is that if I want a new package X, > I have to click 20 other packages to Keep, or risk an update of everything. > There should be a way to update one single package. Is there a way?
3. Download a current state of the packages and set up your own mirror used exclusively in your company. This way you have full control which packages are used on all machines. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
