RE: Creating a custom package installer?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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Yep, there's no link to the top cygwin-apps page, but there is one to
<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html> from
<http://cygwin.com/setup.html>.
	Igor

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:

> The best I can tell, there is no link to
> <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/> on <http://cygwin.com/>.  During an
> admittedly quick look, I couldn't find a link to it anywhere. Presuming
> there is a link somewhere, maybe it could be someplace less obscure.
>
> Or is hiding this official policy ("WJM")?  :-)
>
> - Barry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh<at>cygwin<dot>com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:42 AM
> To: Hitanshu Gandhi; cygwin<at>cygwin<dot>com
> Subject: Re: Creating a custom package installer?
>
> At 07:04 AM 3/25/2004, you wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I have a question. Im on a project which involves LipSync on
> >Linux. Now, in the final phase, we're porting it to Windows. We're curious
> >to know how to create binary packages like tar.bz2 files. I took the
> >URL:http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptII2.0/cygwin.htm
> >and used
> >http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptII2.0/cygwinBasic.exe
> >This file unzipped to a setup.exe file
> >packages\setup.ini - which contains hints and is auto-gen
> >packages\releases\{package}\{package}.tar.bz2 - package files
> >
> >Now for our project, if we need say, bash, less, and some more utils and
> >my own package, how can we make setup see those files? Could you point me
> >to some tutorial? http://cygwin.com/setup.html isnt clear in a step by
> >step fashion.
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >PS: If its been asked in the past,excuse my ignorance but please point me
> >to the link.
>
> Actually, things very much like this have been asked in the past so there's
> a page that talks about creating setup servers.  You should be able to get
> a feel for what you need from this and other docs on setup and it's format.
> See:
> <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>
> --
> Larry Hall

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