On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
This means you
won't be able to install/remove any of those packages with rpm because
it's impossible to replace in-use files under Windows and rpm does not
know how to do it the windows-way.
http://www.thescarms.com/vbasic/FilesInUse.asp
so the cyg
Am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2005 18:27 schrieb Brian Dessent:
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
>
> > static link and boot strap a core with the installer. Just like installing
> > linux from cd.
>
> Cygwin1.dll cannot be statically linked.
>
> > gosh darnit, I just want to upgrade cygwin via ssh.
>
> You can tr
Jason Pyeron wrote:
> static link and boot strap a core with the installer. Just like installing
> linux from cd.
Cygwin1.dll cannot be statically linked.
> gosh darnit, I just want to upgrade cygwin via ssh.
You can try the 'cygupdate' tools in CVS.
Brian
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
I don't think it will be as simple as just converting the packages to
rpm. The rpm command itself will depend on cygwin1.dll, and any
subcommands that it executes (ls, awk, perl, whatever) will as well, in
addition to any other DLLs that those commands
Jason Pyeron wrote:
> yes, rpm and up2date.
>
> I was thinking this morning about writing a script to parse the setup.ini
> and generate some no-src RPMs.
>
> It would be better if the RPMs were generated from src so dependencies
> could be created 'properly'.
I don't think it will be as simple
On Mon, 2 May 2005 Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> My question as I've
>asked before is, can or is someone working on improving accessibility
>of setup.exe for those of us who have to use windows via a screenreader
>and keyboard. Many
Sean McMahon wrote:
> Is there a cygwin port for this yast which will install cygwin packages? I
No.
> should point out that some of the controlls in setup.exe work. The initial
> buttons for selecting install from internet, the next and back buttons, the
> finnish button. It's really the mai
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From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:42 AM
Subject: Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance
of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)
> Bill Hughes wrote:
>
> > YaST from SUSE is
Bill Hughes wrote:
> YaST from SUSE is now GPL and handles dependencies quite well, the reason I
> mention it is that as an alternative to the more normal 'pretty' gui it also
> has a text mode gui-ish interface which may work better with a screen
> reader/magnifier.
I think that as long as we st
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes:
>
> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:04:24AM -0400, Arturus Magi wrote:
> >Jani Tiainen wrote:
> >>Why to reinvent wheel..?
> >>
> >>You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
> >>RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
> >
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:04:24AM -0400, Arturus Magi wrote:
>Jani Tiainen wrote:
>>Why to reinvent wheel..?
>>
>>You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
>>RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
>
>I also seem to recall someone using apt-get in Cygwin-spa
Jani Tiainen wrote:
Why to reinvent wheel..?
You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
I also seem to recall someone using apt-get in Cygwin-space at one time,
but Google doesn't want to be my friend today.
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Max Bowsher kirjoitti:
Jani Tiainen wrote:
Why to reinvent wheel..?
You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
All working, proven technologies.
Would you like to have a go at porting one of them to Windows, then?
Sorry
Jani Tiainen wrote:
Why to reinvent wheel..?
You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
All working, proven technologies.
Would you like to have a go at porting one of them to Windows, then?
Also, what about a GUI?
I wou
Max Bowsher kirjoitti:
James Renton wrote:
What about http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/?
There are very many installer builders for windows, but none that I have
seen manage many independently updated packages with interdependencies,
in the way that our current setup does.
Max.
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James Renton wrote:
What about http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/?
There are very many installer builders for windows, but none that I have
seen manage many independently updated packages with interdependencies, in
the way that our current setup does.
Max.
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What about http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/?
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