Re: Re: Small documention addenda

2008-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 11:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:57:20AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Patch applied to the original sources of these docs. That will be > >in the docs for Cygwin 1.7. > > I've reworded this to use more correct English and removed the > comparison with U

Re: Re: Small documention addenda

2008-11-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:57:20AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 22 14:56, Valerio Bigiani wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> This isn't correct. Automatic checking for updates might be switched on >>> by default on most or even all Linux systems today, but it's still a >>> customizabl

Re: Small documention addenda

2008-11-25 Thread Valerio Bigiani
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Patch applied to the original sources of these docs. That will be in the docs for Cygwin 1.7. Thank you very much. Hopefully my teacher won't bother to check the link in the meantime :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repor

Re: Small documention addenda

2008-11-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 19 15:37, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2008/11/19 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Btw., is there really no way to use setup.exe for automatic updates > > using some of the command line switches? I honestly don't know. > > I use a batch file like this one. I don't schedule it, but that should > not b

Re: Re: Small documention addenda

2008-11-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 22 14:56, Valerio Bigiani wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> This isn't correct. Automatic checking for updates might be switched on >> by default on most or even all Linux systems today, but it's still a >> customizable setting so it can be switched on or off. > > Which can be fixed by ad

Re: Re: Small documention addenda

2008-11-22 Thread Valerio Bigiani
Corinna Vinschen wrote: This isn't correct. Automatic checking for updates might be switched on by default on most or even all Linux systems today, but it's still a customizable setting so it can be switched on or off. Which can be fixed by adding a "by default": --- cygwin-doc-1.4/src/cygwin

Re: Small documention addenda

2008-11-19 Thread Frank Fesevur
2008/11/19 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Btw., is there really no way to use setup.exe for automatic updates > using some of the command line switches? I honestly don't know. I use a batch file like this one. I don't schedule it, but that should not be a problem. The biggest problem is open files. @

Re: Small documention addenda

2008-11-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 18:11, Valerio Bigiani wrote: > I need to reference in my thesis the fact that setup.ini isn't (by default) > updated automatically via crontab, but you need to manually run setup.exe > to update the package list. I tried googling a bit for variations of > "setup.ini cygwin update" (an

Small documention addenda

2008-11-17 Thread Valerio Bigiani
I need to reference in my thesis the fact that setup.ini isn't (by default) updated automatically via crontab, but you need to manually run setup.exe to update the package list. I tried googling a bit for variations of "setup.ini cygwin update" (and running similar searches on the mailing list a