Custom Cygwin downloads (Was Re: win-ssh-askpass not working)

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

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Steve Howie wrote:

> [snip]
> p.s. in order to roll out this great product to our faculty, staff and
> students (many of whom are less than computer-savvy), is there a way of
> packaging up set of packages (just the base, Xfree and a couple of misc.
> packages such as setsid above) so they can download from a local
> repository?  Sorta like a download profile for setup.exe?
>
> Scotty

Scotty,

This should really be a separate thread, but I'll settle for changing the
subject.  This also has been discussed on the Cygwin list quite a few
times.  What you want is to set up a local mirror, and put all the
packages you'd like to be downloaded by default into the "Base" category
in the setup.ini/bz2 file on your mirror.  Then instruct the users to
point setup.exe to your local mirror, and you're done.  To create the
setup.ini/bz2, see the "upset" script in the cygwin-apps repository.
	Igor
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