On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 09:12:36PM +0300, A. Alper Atici wrote: >On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:00:34 +0100, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: >> >>Thanks for suggesting - no, I don't; it does give you a base system, but >>that does not seem to include a GNU development toolchain of any kind. >>(Well, "gcc" isn't found.) I need this to try my builds on - QuakeForge >>builds on Windows too but only if you use Cygwin, and I'll need to do this >>shortly anyway for my other project (http://www.agrip.org.uk/). I don't >>know of a way to install/uninstall packages from like the command line - I >>think it's all done in setup.exe. What wouldn't I give for a console one >>at this stage? ... :-) > >One feature of setup program is to automatically select packages for >you when it encounters a new version of an already installed package >on your system. I think we can exploit this to install a new package >if we can fake setup to think there exists a previous version on your >system. The names of the installed packages are stored in >/etc/setup/installed.db which is a plain text file with one line for >each installed package. >All you need to do is to enter an obsolete versioned line for the >package you want to install, and then execute setup as you've did >during base installation. Dependencies should automatically be >resolved and selected by setup itself also. > >I can send you relevant lines of installed.db and you can add them >with a single cat >> command, or you can figure them out yourself by >examining the file named setup.ini which is created every time you run >setup.exe in the local directory you've specified (well, in a >subdirectory of it, to be precise).
Why would you go to this effort when you can just rerun setup.exe again and install whatever you need? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
