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Re: Cygwin Release process


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.

Corinna

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