Enhanced mkcygwget Script

[Greg Morgan]

Cygwin has been a very useful tool to me.  However, I have always had 
problems with the setup install from the Internet.  It may have been due 
to the network connections, load on the mirror sites or what have you. 
I didn't realize jut how big Cygwin was until I had a complete set of 
files to install from.  I saw a note in the documentation about Randall 
R Schulz's mkcygwget.  I took the script and added most all the features 
people were looking for.  The heavily commented script puffed up to 615 
lines of code from the original 50+ lines. I am not sure if any of the 
original code survived. I finished enhancing the script around July 
2003.  I have been testing it in several environments: Red Hat Linux, MS 
Windows ME, and MS Windows 2000.  The script seems to work reasonable 
well.  My resulting setup at work allows me to XDMCP to a Solaris host 
on a daily basis.

I also have created a version for people who do not have either a Linux 
environment or an existing Cygwin environment.  mkcygwgetboot supplies 
both the mkcygwget shell script along with the necessary Cygwin *.exe 
and *.dll files to boot a full local mirror from one of the Cygwin web 
mirrors.  All the individual Cygwin packages are downloaded from the 
web.  Then the normal Cygwin setup.exe program would be used to install 
Cygwin from the local mirror.

Thanks for all the people who have contributed to Cygwin.  I hope this 
script is helpful to others.  It has certainly illuminated me to just 
how powerful the Cygwin environment is.

Thanks,
Greg Morgan


Release Notes
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=195331

mkcygwget
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kissalice/mkcygwget?download

mkcygwget boot Release Notes
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=195332

mkcygwget boot tar.gz format
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kissalice/mkcygwgetboot.tar.gz?download

mkcygwget boot zip format
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kissalice/mkcygwgetboot.zip?download

CVS location of the original script and the enhancements
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kissalice/cygwin


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