On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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.
Dang. I was going to say this. Actually, in a way, I guess I did say it. cgf (inside joke) -- 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/
