Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment

2006-09-25 Thread Vinod Gupta
On 9/25/2006 9:03 AM, Vinod Gupta wrote: >> C:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\allec.1 >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\html\atobm.1.html [...] I am wondering: Why would they set these html files as System files? Why info-zip (or probably any DOS app) can't restore them?? Why WinXP's internal unzippe

Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment

2006-09-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Vinod Gupta wrote: >> C:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\allec.1 >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\html\atobm.1.html I don't have a system against which to check this conjecture, but if you do a DOS attrib on each of these files my guess is that the first is created as a +R symlink and the second a

Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment

2006-09-25 Thread Vinod Gupta
>> C:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\allec.1 >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\html\atobm.1.html I don't have a system against which to check this conjecture, but if you do a DOS attrib on each of these files my guess is that the first is created as a +R symlink and the second as a +S symlink*; and

Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment

2006-09-25 Thread fergus
>> C:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\allec.1 >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\html\atobm.1.html I don't have a system against which to check this conjecture, but if you do a DOS attrib on each of these files my guess is that the first is created as a +R symlink and the second as a +S symlink*; and if

Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment

2006-09-24 Thread Vinod Gupta
Yes. You're better off setting up a package server. See: From this you can control the packages installed but can use 'setup.exe' to install, which understands how to unpack packages, symlinks, and run postinstall scripts. Also, you'

Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment

2006-09-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Vinod K Gupta wrote: I need to deploy cygwin and some addon software on about 100 Windows XP Pro machines in my department. It is taking about an hour to setup one machine. I thought of speeding up deployment by setting up one reference machine with all the packages customized to our needs, m

Speeding up Cygwin deployment

2006-09-24 Thread Vinod K Gupta
I need to deploy cygwin and some addon software on about 100 Windows XP Pro machines in my department. It is taking about an hour to setup one machine. I thought of speeding up deployment by setting up one reference machine with all the packages customized to our needs, make a zip archive of C: