> Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> hat am 21.07.2022 18:55 geschrieben: > > > Boris Unckel writes: > > we plan to have Cygwin distributed with our Softwarecenter package > > distribution. The process shall not require any user interaction. Due > > to security policies we don’t grant users direct access to the > > internet. The mandatory proxy blocks binary downloads. For this reason > > we have established a JFrog Artifactory remote repository for the > > whole Cygwin distribution. Accessing this repository by browser works > > without any issues, both with and without login. > […] > > What can we do pass user / password for the –site destination without > > UI and without user interaction? > > Why do you need user authentication and/or serve the files over HTTP(S) > instead of just providing a local repository to install from? > > > Regards, > Achim. > -- The current idea is not to fix the set of available cygwin-packages (and/or versions) in a local copy, neither in the softwarecenter-package, nor in a smb share, but to have the chance of updates with the same softwarecenter-package. Currently the softwarecenter-package contains only the setup.exe plus script. We have several distributions running this way (maven, npm, pypi, conda, rpm...)
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