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Re: changes in recent snapshots -- need testing before release
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: changes in recent snapshots -- need testing before release
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:47:32 +0000
- References: <20001009184256.A9506@cygnus.com><5949-Wed11Oct2000010301+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk><200010110006.UAA14466@envy.delorie.com>
Apologies for replying to a 3-month-old thread:
On Tuesday 10 Oct 00, DJ Delorie writes:
>
> > Or is there a technique to have setup.exe do this for you? If not,
> > could/should it be extended to do so?
>
> If you bunzip2 it, gzip it, rename it to cygwin-YYYYMMZZ.tar.gz, put
> it in an empty directory, and run setup there, setup should give you
> the option of installing it. Let us know if that works ;-)
I've added an entry in the FAQ about using setup.exe to install
cygwin-inst snapshot tarballs. Should be quite handy for those who
need to try them.
Regards,
David
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