I invoke setup through a little helper script that updates setup.exe in case there is a new version on the server.
wget.exe --timestamping http://cygwin.com/setup.exe runas.exe /user:%USERDOMAIN%\Administrator setup.exe Auto-update would have a nice touch to it, though. Alex -- Alexander Groß http://therightstuff.de/ 2010/4/15 Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> > > On 4/11/2010 1:13 PM, Rance Hall wrote: >> >> The standard way to do this would be to write a script that wgets (or >> other windows alternative) the setup.exe on the web into a staging >> area. > > Firefox and Adobe do it with a separate updater program. > > I'm not recommending that for Cygwin, but setup.exe could be its own updater. > It could make a copy of its own executable to a temp location, and launch > that with a flag that makes it go fetch and replace the non-temp copy and > relaunch it. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
