adding to and upgrading a cygwin installation...

[e-head]

On 12/19/03 15:02 or thereabouts, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) scribbled:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 tomatohead@myrealbox.com wrote:
> 
> > Also, is there any easy way to essentially just "upgrade" all of your
> > currently installed cygwin packages ?
> > Something kind of like debians "apt-get upgrade" ?
> 
> setup.exe -R c:\cygwin -s ftp://mirrors.rcn.net -n -q
> 
> works for me.  I have is as a shortcut in my Startup folder, so it runs with
> every reboot.  (c:\cygwin is where cygwin is installed;
> ftp://mirrors.rcn.net is my preferred mirror, change both as appropriate for
> you.)  See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01490.html for more.
> 
> - Barry

thanks, that could certainly come in handy.
%^)

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