RE: making a cygwin install.

["McGraw, Robert P." <rmcgraw at purdue dot edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 11:29 AM
> To: McGraw, Robert P.
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: making a cygwin install.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX]
> > > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:34 AM
> > > To: McGraw, Robert P.
> > > Cc: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.
> 
> > > Subject: Re: making a cygwin install.
> > >
> > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would like to create a cygwin setup package so that users can
> > > > install the same software package on their machines.
> > > >
> > > > Is this possible? If so can you point me to the documentation that
> > > > explains how to do this?
> > >
> > > Robert,
> > >
> > > All of the information you're looking for should be on these pages:
> > > <http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html> and
> > > <http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>.
> > > You might also Google for "genini cygwin".
> > [McGraw, Robert P.]
> >
> > I have looked through the suggested ULR and not finding my answer.
> >
> > I googled genini cygwin, and the perl script pointed me
> > cygwin.com/setup.html, but it is talking about creating software
> > packages. This does not sound like what I need to do.
> 
> This sounds like exactly what you asked for above.
> 
> > So let me rephrase my question and ask how other people handle this
> > through an example.
> >
> > I need to install the Cygwin/Xserver on multiple machines. I first
> > installed Cygwin & Cygwin/X and all necessary and needed packages from a
> > cygwin server to my WinXP test system.
> >
> > Once I have tested and have it working with the right parameters, I now
> > need to install the same software on multiple machines. I would like to
> > create some kind of bundle or selfextracting file that a user can get
> > and install on their WinXP machine. This will be sure that users have
> > what they need to run the Cygwin/Xserver.
> 
> Creating a self-extracting .exe that installs parts of Cygwin is not a
> very Cygwin-friendly way of distributing software, as it won't play nicely
> with existing Cygwin installations (see
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#3PP>).
> The approved way of installing Cygwin is using the setup.exe tool.
> 
> However, there is a way of doing what you want using setup.exe.  Simply
> create a Cygwin package that contains the right configuration files, add a
> setup.hint that puts the package in the Base category and requires all the
> standard packages you've installed, then publish your package on some web
> site and have your users run Cygwin setup and point it to both a standard
> mirror and your site.  The users will then have all the right packages
> selected automatically.  You might want to have your package initially put
> the config files somewhere other than their final location (e.g.,
> /etc/defaults), and then have the postinstall script that moves them into
> the right location (to ensure that the postinstall scripts of all other
> required packages have completed by the time you do that).
> 
> If you do it right, the users can later update Cygwin on their machines or
> install more packages in a standard way.  Just make sure there are no
> clashes of the files actually included in your package with the files
> included in other package tarballs, otherwise setup will remove your files
> if the user decides to update those packages later.
[McGraw, Robert P.] 
[McGraw, Robert P.] 
Thanks, this was very helpful and I do not want to be a 3PP.

Robert


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