RE: setup.exe command line options

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

CVS Setup will replace in-use files correctly (tested on NT only at this
point) if the following predicates are true:

Any given file is only attempted to be replaced once.
The last action on each file is NOT a delete.
The drive letters on the next reboot are the same.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stipe Tolj [mailto:tolj@wapme-systems.de]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:21 AM
> Cc: cygwin-apps@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: setup.exe command line options
> 
> 
> "keith_starsmeare@yahoo.co.uk" wrote:
> > 
> > I've made some progress, but it's still (infuriatingly) not 
> at the stage
> > where you can do a whole installation without dialog boxes 
> (no offense -
> > they're lovely dialog boxes!), but you can certainly have 
> *fewer* dialog
> > boxes!
> 
> Maybe cross-topic, but I'll try:
> 
> I would like to see a command line option to setup.exe that can be
> used to "update" the current installed packages from the same source.
> I think of remoted update via setup.exe through a ssh session.
> 
> Is this anyway possible? At least the cygwin core package has it's
> problem I guess since cygwin1.dll needs to be replaced and several NT
> services are running at that point?!
> 
> So the question is: How to upgrade a remote Cygwin machine? I guess no
> solution for now.
> 
> Stipe
> 
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