X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:05:32 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times Message-ID: <20080729010531.GA9423@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <488DF749 DOT D61CBD8C AT dessent DOT net> <032d01c8f0d3$3daf6650$9601a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <20080728211557 DOT GA7646 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <488E3FF7 DOT 8000907 AT bmts DOT com> <20080728214842 DOT GB7646 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <488E4884 DOT 4020304 AT bmts DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <488E4884.4020304@bmts.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 06:30:28PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Using setup.exe for this task makes me think that people believe >>setup.exe is doing something mysterious. It really isn't. Even if you >>wanted to go to the effort of unpacking tar.bz2 files you could still >>do it all with bash, tar, and mount, avoiding setup.exe entirely. > >Except that setup.exe is "bootstrapping" the install all by itself and >managing package dependencies. You don't have to do that if you have a standard implementation that you just want to clone. You don't have to worry about package dependencies. They are all intrinsicly in c:\cygwin. If you do want to install from a pre-generated list of package tar files then you presumably don't have to worry about dependencies either since the list of packages in the download area would be the list of packages that need to be installed. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/