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Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation
- From: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>
- To: cygx <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: matt rice <m at blackandwhiterainbow dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:15:45 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation
--- matt rice <m@blackandwhiterainbow.com> a écrit :
> dont do that Andreas!! the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries
> can easily be
> converted into a cygwin installer package..
if this is so easy, why don't we have now one official
?
XFree86 4.2.0 is on the servers since several months
if I remember correct...
... and at this day we only have Xinstall.sh .
>
> you need to do 2 things... create a cygwin package
> and create a hint
> file to install it...
>
> download the cygwin binaries
> uncompress them all...
> this should convert the cygwin Xfree86 binary into a
> package usable by
> the installer.... (not that i've tested it)
>
> mkdir -p /tmp/usr/X11R6
> mv ./* /tmp/usr
> cd /tmp
> tar -C /tmp -czvf XPackage.tgz usr
>
> create the setup.hint
> the cygwin contributors guide:
> http://cygwin.com/setup.html
>
> Note: you'll have to install packages from a local
> directory.
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