Dodgy adding a package to Setup.exe

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Paul Keeble wrote:
> Environment
> Windows XP
> Setup.exe - 2.573.2.3 (Unix, 
> 
> Currently what I do is have a setup.exe + release directory that contains
> all of the packages downloaded. When we install to another machine we
> choose all the local packages, and hence we have a nice simple(ish)
> definition of what our system uses in the cygwin packages and a way to
> install it. However due to a problem in csih I would like to have a
> custom package that replaces the script file, This is not a bug in csih,
> its a special case for terminal services disabling that I would like to
> be seamless. There seems to be two basic approaches - 1) Add a new
> version of csih into the release directory and say that this is the
> latest version in the setup.ini, 2) Add a whole new package that replaces
> the file/uses post install to replace the file file.
> 
> I have tried both approaches but in both cases when doing an install from
> local my version did not appear, and nor did my package. My ideal
> scenario was that I can put a tar.bz2 into the release directory in the
> right place, modify the setup.ini and it'll show on the list and I can
> use either post install or file replacement to achieve my goal. I can't
> find an error in my tar.bz2 or the setup.ini but if it should work that
> would be good to know that its possible to do this way.
> 
> Submitting this as a real package I maintaining it doesn't make any sense
> as no one else needs this change. On the other hand I need the change to
> be installed on many machines and I would like it as seamless as possible
> and hence a custom makes sense until 1.7 is production ready and fixes my
> specific issue.
> 
> How can I achieve what I am trying to do?

It's not immediately obvious to me why what you're doing isn't working
for you but it seems to me that you've ignored one option that may be
the easiest of all to implement - change the existing package without
changing the version.  Of course, you may need update the md5sum in
'setup.ini' to make this work.

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