Re: cygwin Release process

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:39:21PM -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote:
>> Is there any way to control the versions of programs you get from setup.exe?
>> The cygwin environment is different on almost every machine at our company.
>> It all depends on when you ran the setup program.    I have two suggestions:
>> 
>> 1. It would be nice, if there was a cygwin-stable that had a list of stable 
>> packages that you could download.   This would be updated two to three times a
>> year, with testing.   I belive Debian does something like this.
>> 
>> 2. Failing that, it would be nice if the setup program had a button that
>> set all the values to Keep.   The problem is that if I want a new package X,
>> I have to click 20 other packages to Keep, or risk an update of everything.
>> There should be a way to update one single package.   Is there a way?
>
>3. Download a current state of the packages and set up your own mirror used 
>   exclusively in your company.  This way you have full control which
>   packages are used on all machines.

Dang.  I was going to say this.

Actually, in a way, I guess I did say it.

cgf
(inside joke)

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