Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:49:05PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:flognat@flognat.myip.org] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:44 PM
>
>>First thoughts, do a package with all required tgz's and then 
>>do packages with the fonts not required.. docs.. 
>>
>>Hmm what more is needed?? ;-)
>
>Here's the easiest way to get started:
>* 1 package (and one setup.hint) per binary tarball.
>* make sure that each package lists all it's dependencies.
>* edit the install script you've got, to remove any tarball extraction
>stuff, and put it in a new tarball called 'X11-install' or something as
>a postinstall script, and make sure that the server/client packages
>depend on that.
>
>That should do it. Oh, explicitly list the source for all the packages
>as the same source tarball (if that's what exists for X).

And, please use bzip2 to compress the tar files.  If we can use setup.exe
for installation, we won't have to be bothered with the "Where's bzip2?"
questions here anymore.

http://cygwin.com/setup.html

should help with setting things up for a cygwin package.

FWIW, it's been a long term goal to get setup.exe into a state where
it can install Cygwin/XFree86.

cgf