On Apr 11 22:31, Charles Wilson wrote: > [Good ol' licensing fine print removed]
>> For me it would be okay, if I could detect if there is a installed cygwin >> with my needed utils (bash, grep, sed, awk, read...) >> For now my only idea was to package it with my distribution. >> So here my new suggestion: >> 1. is cygwin installed? >> 1.1. yes, setup the environment-variables to use the installed one >> 1.1.1 are the needed tools installed? >> 1.1.2 no, run cygwin-setup and preselect the additionally needed tools >> 1.2. no, run cygwin-setup with the preselected needed tools >> Is this possible to realize? > > That sounds almost ideal (to me, but I'm no authority). Authoritative ACK, including the "almost". > [...] > > (1) (a) Just create a setup.exe-compatible package for your tool > (b) create a cygwin "release" directory on a website of your control > (c) populate it with all the cygwin packages (including -src) you want > to include in your mini-distro PLUS all of the dependencies for those > packages > (d) create a setup.exe-compatible setup.ini script that describes the > packages available on your site (use 'genini') > (e) tell people to use setup.exe, with "custom mirror" set to your > site, and 'install all'. (FWIW, this is what I did for an internal > customized cygwin distro for my employer) If they already have cygwin, > and/or newer versions of some of your copied packages, they get to keep > their newer versions, and just pull in your special package, and any other > requirements they don't already have. > (f) alternatively, if setup.exe has cmdline args to set a specific > mirror choice (I don't know), give your user a batch file that > automatically runs setup.exe with --some-option your-mirror. That's the second best way, really. The best way is to become a Cygwin package maintainer for your special packages and put them into the distro. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
