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Subject: Re: Maintaining Non-Cygwin Packages???
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
To: David Ryan <Oobles@hotmail.com>
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Date: 12 Oct 2002 17:23:57 +1000
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On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 12:31, David Ryan wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I have a number of packages I would like to create and provide to my=20
> users that I don't feel would be that useful to the whole cygwin=20
> community.  The users of my web site however would find the convenience=20
> of an installable package much easier than instructions on how to build=20
> the sources.  Two questions..
>=20
> 1.  Is it possible to have setup.exe install packages outside of the=20
> list of official packages?

Yes, using the 'other url' capability in setup.
There is much more on this in the cygwin-apps archives.

Rob
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