On 16/02/2020 15:21, Anton Shepelev wrote, quoting me: >> That said, we do not have the manpower resources to >> maintain an offline installer, but it should be possible >> for any user, with a live internet connection to create >> their own. The idea, which I have used in the past, is to >> create the initial installation on removable (or network >> shared) media, then clone that (offline) wherever you >> wish. > > Does that mean that MinGW is fully portable and does not > depend on anything outside the MinGW directory? Yes ... unless you create your own external dependencies. >> You may subsequently remount the removable/shared media >> installation in the online environment, update/upgrade it, >> and distribute the updates to offline clones, as required. > > How to distribute updates without overwriting the users' > data? By careful picking of the required files, as listed > on the "Files" tab of the GUI installer? If you keep the master clean, then it shouldn't include any user-data files which might be overwritten; (an exception may be the features.h file, if you allow users to customize that). Safer, however, would be to clone everything, on first time installation, but when upgrading clone only the content of $MINGW_ROOT/var/cache/mingw-get/packages, and of $MINGW_ROOT/var/lib/mingw-get/data, *excluding* profile.xml, and *all* sysroot-*.xml and manifest-*.xml files, then run mingw-get in place, on the cloned offline installation, to perform the upgrade; (there is no need to run 'mingw-get update' on the clone -- it would fail anyway, since it is offline; you should have done this in the online master installation, and its effect is captured in the set of files, which you've cloned from $MINGW_ROOT/var). -- Regards, Keith. Public key available from keys.gnupg.net Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/archives/mingw-users/attachments/20200216/f44c6b77/attachment.sig>
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