On 03 Aug 2012 09:34:14, Larry Hall wrote: > On 8/2/2012 6:10 PM, J.V. wrote: > > I want cygwin to silently run the package manager and update my system > > everytime I login. > > > > I have over 100 vm's that I use for various things and it is quite the > > hassle to update every component in the system on each launch so am looking > > for solutions or ideas on how to automatically update things like: > > > > cygwin > > See <http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli>
You can't run the package manager every time you login, because many times you must kill all Cygwin processes (which includes your login shell) during the update. For a script that makes use of the FAQ section that Larry mentioned, see: https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_setup.bat It is not perfect, but it does do 80% of the work. It does stop Cygwin services, but it does not stop non-service Cygwin processes. The next improvement is to detect those... -- Tom Schutter -- 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
