Re: Setup

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:54:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 03:43:17PM +0200, Jean Barata wrote:
>>Isn't possible to create a setup program that allows to download
>>directly the updated packages ?
>
>Yes.
>
>>(as the Cygwin's setup program) Is there someone working on it ?
>
>As has been repeatedly mentioned here, "yes".  We're working on adapting
>the cygwin setup program to this purpose.
>
>The work is nearly done, in fact.
>
>You could use cygwin's setup.exe to do this now, if anyone had the
>inclination to create an XFree86 setup.ini.  I don't know why this
>hasn't happened already, actually.

Just to clarify:  We're adding categories and dependencies to the
cygwin setup package.  When it's done, there will probably be something
like an "XFree86" category that you can select.

For, now, someone could create an self-contained setup.ini file which
could install XFree86 using cygwin's setup.

cgf