[PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:57:27PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> On 1/11/06, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > As mentioned in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00537.html>,
> > here's a patch to the FAQ to clarify the section on installing snapshots.
> > I didn't know whether the various *.texinfo files are still used, so I
> > ported the modifications there as well, just in case.
> 
> Applied to faq-setup.xml (the texinfo files are no longer used... I suppose I
> should remove them). It would be nice to have a sample batch file that automated
> the cygwin1.dll replacement, too.

I've prettied up a batch file I use for installing cygwin-inst-*
snapshots, and added stuff to handle spacey pathnames and inetd (which
AIUI isn't always a cygrunsrv service), neither of which I personally
use.

Just drag and drop the tarball onto the batch file, or run with
absolute tarball name as argument via a dos prompt.
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@echo off
cd c:\cygwin
path bin;%path%
sh -c 'echo Preparing to install "`cygpath -ua %1`";echo'
echo Please shut down all cygwin applications before proceeding
pause
echo Shutting down any cygwin services . . .
net stop inetd >nul 2>nul
sh -c "for serv in `cygrunsrv --list`;do cygrunsrv --stop $serv;done"
echo Installing . . .
move bin\cygwin1.dll
sh -c 'tar xfj "`cygpath -u %1`"'
echo Restarting any cygwin services . . .
net start inetd 2>nul
sh -c "for serv in `cygrunsrv --list`;do net start $serv;done"
bin\echo
cygstart cygwin.bat
bin\echo
echo Verify cygwin.bat and any services correctly start before deleting old dll
pause
del cygwin1.dll

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