Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin - Versioned Distro's (was Re: A request?) From: Robert Collins To: Elfyn McBratney Cc: cygwin In-Reply-To: <006f01c30892$51fd5470$876386d9@ellixia> References: <768A0EA6FF8CB34FA522978966E5D52E021370A9@bwam02msx.ae.ge.com> <20030417172623.GB12623@redhat.com> <02de01c3087f$913c68f0$ac7986d9@ellixia> <1050987478.842.46.camel@localhost> <006f01c30892$51fd5470$876386d9@ellixia> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zBwLH7/z45yG5kdqhWsb" Organization: Message-Id: <1050990760.846.54.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 22 Apr 2003 15:52:41 +1000 --=-zBwLH7/z45yG5kdqhWsb Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 15:45, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > ...My first thought was to have a command line tool (cpm) much like the C= PAN > shell, which would be easy to use and have simple commands like `install'= , > `update' and `remove' to modify the installation, as well as having comma= nd > line options. On second though t'would be better to have something that > could also be setup integrated. >=20 > IMO, if this does get off the ground, it would be a good start to first p= ut > the distro together and once it's all polished then tackle the setup.exe > beast. :-) However you like, you're the volunteer :}. You do know that setup.exe has command line options for *most* everything. The only thing missing that matters is the glue to install package foo, or remove package foo. By default it will update everything. (And you get the dependency logic for free .....) Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-zBwLH7/z45yG5kdqhWsb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+pNioI5+kQ8LJcoIRAgPKAJ9qiNP/p9pRubs6ky/DZHpivy6jzgCdGCSp yPvYiF1wAGnX42Sxyfl3nKk= =gDyz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zBwLH7/z45yG5kdqhWsb--