As the latest installment in the recent series of major "D'oh!"s, I realized that the installation profiles I previously proposed for setup could be initially implemented as special packages with the right dependences. This still doesn't absolve us from adding some more sophisticated support for these in setup (e.g., communicating the user prerefence about creating desktop icons to them), but it's a start, and it'll cut down on the "I installed Cygwin, so how come gcc doesn't work" (and the much more annoying "just install everything, it's only 2 gigs" answers to those).
IMO, these packages should be in a special new category (I propose the
name "@Profiles" to make setup put this at the top, but I don't know if
setup will parse this correctly). I've attached a few sample profile
packages for commonly requested configurations with the corresponding
setup.hints. We could probably concentrate them all in one directory
(thus the '@ ...' lines at the top of the hint files). All the .tar.bz2
files are the same empty tarball -- it's the setup.hints that are
important.
Comments and other suggestions welcome. Note that the attached packages
are an initial cut at defining those profiles -- I'm bound to have missed
something. Also, I'm not proposing to maintain *all* of the profiles,
though I could maintain the ones I've attached, as there isn't too much
work involved.
Igor
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XWindows.tar.bz2
Description: Binary data
@ XWindows category: @Profiles requires: cygwin xorg-x11-base X-start-menu-icons sdesc: "Includes packages needed to set up an X server" ldesc: "Profile for SSH server deployment. The packages included in this profile allow setting up and starting an X server on your machine. In the future this could include a postinstall script for creating a desktop icon, etc."
WebServer.tar.bz2
Description: Binary data
@ WebServer category: @Profiles requires: cygwin apache2 sdesc: "Includes packages needed to set up a web server" ldesc: "Profile for SSH server deployment. The packages included in this profile allow setting up and starting a web server on your machine."
SSHServer.tar.bz2
Description: Binary data
@ SSHServer category: @Profiles requires: cygwin openssh sdesc: "Includes packages needed to set up an SSH server" ldesc: "Profile for SSH server deployment. The packages included in this profile allow setting up and starting an SSH server on your machine."
LatexDevelopment.tar.bz2
Description: Binary data
@ LatexDevelopment category: @Profiles requires: cygwin tetex tetex-extra ghostscript ImageMagick sdesc: "Includes packages needed to build documents with LaTeX" ldesc: "Profile for LaTeX document development. The packages included in this profile allow building documents using TeX/LaTeX, limited image conversion, as well as PostScript to PDF conversion."
GCCDevelopment.tar.bz2
Description: Binary data
@ GCCDevelopment category: @Profiles requires: cygwin bash gcc make autoconf automake gdb upx sdesc: "Includes packages needed to build programs with GCC" ldesc: "Profile for GCC development. The packages included in this profile allow compiling programs using GCC, running 'make', debugging programs using 'gdb', and running autotools."
