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Re: cyginstall - /etc/setup/$pkg.lst.gz content
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 07:42:08PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 06:22:50PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>>> I'm just writing a cmdline tool in perl for faster setup for the
>>> power-user. It's named cyginstall and has the usual rpm options
>>> and the smart features. It can not bootstrap a fresh cygwin install of
>>> course, as it requires cygwin perl bash gzip coreutils tar.
>> I actually wrote one of these years ago. It's checked in here:
>> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cygupdate/?cvsroot=cygwin-apps
>
> For completeness:
> Just the two modules Cygwin::Setup and Cygwin::Setup::ByDir are missing.
> But I have them somewhere from upset. But upset is no more, there's genini
> now.
>
> BTW: Just for those modules we renamed the perl archlib recently
> to i686-cygwin. So we will have no nameclash in the future.
>
>> It is fairly full-featured, I think. I don't remember if the dependency
>> handling works right or not. I think it can install cygwin but not
>> perl.
>
> Even the interactive prompt is there.
>
>> I use it to install packages when I'm about to release so I know it at
>> least kinda works.
>> It may have problems with cygwin-1.7.0 since it has no logic for finding
>> the cygwin root.
>> I have never released this because I didn't want to deal with the
>> support issues but if someone else wants to take it over, I'd be happy
>> to relinquish it.
>
> Hmm. I'll check if I like it or if I like mine more. :)
I just checked in what I had sitting around in my sandbox.
Feel free to cannabilize this, if you want. I barely touch it these
days.
cgf