Re: Setup.exe v2.56

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Keener [mailto:bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 2:00 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: Setup.exe v2.56
> >
> >
> > Travis Howell wrote:
> > > The last released Cygwin setup version (2.29) works fine without sub
> > > directories or setup.ini.
> 
> I suspect that was an unintentional 'benefit'.
> 

No, it was an intentional benefit as designed by DJ and was advertised
on this list as such.

> > > But won't that changes be overwriten each time setup.ini is
> > updated on Cygwn
> > > FTP sites ?
> >
> > Each time you do a Download from Internet or an Install from
> > Internet  - yes.
> 
> More of a problem is that once setup understands dependencies, a
> setup.ini will be mandatory. The directory structure is really moot vs
> the need for setup to have accurate metainformation.
> 

Hmm...  However, if a setup.ini doesn't exist then setup should still
work as it did in previously which was to install any .tar.gz file in
the directory and sub-directories recursively that setup.exe resides in.

> IMO Travis, your best bet is to create a patch to the current setup.exe
> that reads an additional file - local.packages or some such, which lists
> your additional packages that you want installed, and adds them to the
> list of available packages. Such a change would be fairly unobtrusive,
> seem to give you your key requirements (installation of additional files
> over the "official" packages).
> 

Maybe a good idea but still the method described above needs to be dealt
with.

-- 
Earnie.

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