apt-cyg

apt-cyg is a command-line installer for Cygwin which cooperates with Cygwin Setup and uses the same repository. The syntax is similar to apt-get. Usage examples:

"apt-cyg install <package names>" to install packages
"apt-cyg remove <package names>" to remove packages
"apt-cyg update" to update setup.ini
"apt-cyg show" to show installed packages
"apt-cyg find <pattern(s)>" to find packages matching patterns
"apt-cyg describe <pattern(s)>" to describe packages matching patterns
"apt-cyg packageof <commands or files>" to locate parent packages
"apt-cyg pathof <cache|mirror|mirrordir|cache/mirrordir|setup.ini>" to show path"
"apt-cyg key-add <files> ..." to add keys contained in <files>
"apt-cyg key-del <keyids> ..." to remove keys <keyids>
"apt-cyg key-list" to list keys
"apt-cyg key-finger" to list fingerprints
"apt-cyg upgrade-self" to upgrade apt-cyg
"apt-cyg depends <package names>" to show forward dependency information for packages with depth.
"apt-cyg rdepends <package names>" to show reverse dependency information for packages with depth.
"apt-cyg completion-install" to install completion.
"apt-cyg completion-uninstall" to uninstall completion.
"apt-cyg mirrors-list" to show list of mirrors.
"apt-cyg benchmark-mirrors <url> ..." to benchmark mirrors.
"apt-cyg benchmark-parallel-mirrors <url> ..." to benchmark mirrors in parallel.
"apt-cyg benchmark-parallel-mirrors-list" to benchmark mirrors-list in parallel.
"apt-cyg scriptinfo" to show script infomations."
"apt-cyg show-packages-busyness <package names> ..." to show packages are busy or noe."

Requirements

apt-cyg requires the cygwin default environment and optional packages below.

wget,ca-certificates,gnupg

In 32bit version of cygwin, wget requires an additional setting for ca-certificates package. Choose one of below settings.

# 1. Create symbolic link for the default ca-directory of wget. 
ln -s /usr/ssl /etc/

# or
# 2. Set ca-directory paramete in '/etc/wgetrc'. 
echo "ca-directory = /usr/ssl/certs" >> /etc/wgetrc

# or
# 3. Set ca-directory paramete in '~/.wgetrc'. 
echo "ca-directory = /usr/ssl/certs" >> ~/.wgetrc

Remarks: Above additional settings for wget is not required for 64bit version of cygwin. But, as of 2014-01-17, perhaps ca-certificates package makes fail of certification in 64bit version of cygwin with Windows 8. See below:

Known Problem / 2014-01-17: ca-certificates package is not setup correct at x86_64 with Windows 8.

Quick start

The most recommended way to deploy this fork can be seen from a link below:

New features / Upgrade apt-cyg

apt-cyg is a simple script. Once you have a copy, make it executable:

chmod +x /bin/apt-cyg

Optionally place apt-cyg in a bin/ folder on your path.

Then use apt-cyg, for example:

apt-cyg install nano

New features

True multi-architecture support

Let think a case that you want to install the x86 package when you are working under the x86_64 environment. For example:

apt-cyg --charch x86 install chere

As of 2013-10-26, chere package is provided for only the repository for x86.

Remarks: Of course, you must install both environments of x86_64 and x86, beforehand.

Signature check and key management by GnuPG

The default action of apt-cyg has been changed to check signature for 'setup.ini'. Of course you can also avoid signature check by using --no-verify or -X options. Public keys of cygwin and cygwinports are already registered to trusted keys of embeded. If you want to use some other public keys, please use key-* subcommands.

Upgrade apt-cyg

If apt-cyg is under the git version control, this fork can upgrade itself by "upgrade-self" subcommand. Therefore, the most recommended way to deploy this fork is below:

git clone HTTPS_clone_URL
ln -s "$(realpath apt-cyg/apt-cyg)" /usr/local/bin/

HTTPS_clone_URL is like a https://github.com/USERNAME/apt-cyg.git. It can be found from the right side menu in each fork pages on github.

Proxy support

Use --proxy, -p option. This option must take a parameter from one of "auto", "inherit", "none" and URL.

"auto" will determine a proxy using a part of the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD). The current implementation will look for a string of "PROXY URL" from "http://wpad/wpad.dat". If "wpad.dat" could not be downloaded, the proxy settings are inherited from the parent environment.
"inherit" will inherit the proxy settings from the parent environment.
"none" will not use the proxy.
URL can take a string like "protocol://hostname:port".

For example:

apt-cyg --proxy http://proxy.home:8080 update

The default parameter is "${APT_CYG_PROXY:-auto}". At the environment where is not provided the WPAD server, it makes the lag for a few seconds at startup. So, if you don't want to use WPAD, please define APT_CYG_PROXY environment variable as below:

export APT_CYG_PROXY=inherit

Bash completion support

Bash completion script can be installed to "/etc/bash_completion.d/apt-cyg" by completion-install subcommand. It will be automatically updated when apt-cyg is upgraded to newer version. If you don't want to update it automatically, execute completion-install subcommand in conjunction with --completion-disable-autoupdate option. And completion-uninstall subcommand removes "/etc/bash_completion.d/apt-cyg".

Some other forks, Milly / apt-cyg under the cfg / apt-cyg fork, ashumkin / apt-cyg and etc, are also supported it.

Contributing

This project has been re-published on GitHub to make contributing easier. Feel free to fork and modify this script.

The Google Code project has a list of open issues.

Forks on the github

Caution: Please do not merge forks that have incompatible licenses.

Ex.) Merging to the GPL from the MIT is possible. But merging to the MIT from the GPL is impossible.

Official (MIT license)

transcodes-open / apt-cyg

Unofficial (GPLv2)

Todo

Support multi mirrors: Cygwin setup can use multi mirrors. They are recorded at last-mirror section in '/etc/setup/setup.rc'. It's useful for using Cygwinports.
Support upgrade: But maybe, busy resources can not be upgraded, and rebase problem will happen. Cygwin setup resolves by replacing them at next reboot.
Support dependency check for remove subcommand.

Known Problem

2014-01-17: ca-certificates package is not setup correct at x86_64 with Windows 8.

After clean installing with setup-x86_64, there are something wrong about ca-certificate package as below:

$ ls -lnG \
     /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt \
     /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt
-r--r--r-- 1 1001 314336 Jan 17 18:17 /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt
-rw-r--r-- 1 1001      0 Oct 16 12:35 /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt
$ ls -lnG \
     /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem \
     /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem
-r--r--r-- 1 1001 232342 Jan 17 18:17 /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 1001      0 Oct 16 12:35 /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem

The x86 environment seems no problem except that need an additional setting for wget and ca-certificate. Hmm,,,

It seems that /usr/bin/update-ca-trust is failed at x86_64.

It's ad hoc, but effective way to fix it, is to copy files from cygwin32 to cygwin64, as below:

cp -a /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt \
      /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt
cp -a /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem \
      /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem

This problem is fixed at 2014-01-24. version 0.18.7-1 of p11-kit, p11-kit-trust and libp11-kit0 did not work at the cygwin64 under the Windows 8. If you face the above problem, please upgrade these three packages from version 0.18.7-1 to version 0.18.7-2.

For more details, see a thread of below:

Cygwin mailing list / cygwin / Re: Is there someone who have a same problem ?

2014-01-15: Signature check failed at cygwinports x86_64.

Oops, setup.bz2 is newer than setup.bz2.sig. And it seems to be corrupted.

$ date
Wed Jan 15 01:30:19 JST 2014
$ w3m -dump ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/x86_64/
Index of ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/x86_64/

[Upper Directory]
md5.sum. . . . . . . Jan 10 14:24    184
release/ . . . . . . Jan 10 18:00
setup.bz2. . . . . . Jan 10 13:59   579K
setup.bz2.sig. . . . Dec  6 11:28     72
setup.ini. . . . . . Dec  6 11:28  3.20M
setup.ini.sig. . . . Dec  6 11:28     72

$ wget -q -O - ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/x86_64/setup.bz2 | bzip2 -tvv
  (stdin):
    [1: huff+mtf rt+rld]
    [2: huff+mtf data integrity (CRC) error in data

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

As of 2014-01-24, above problem is recovered at least.

FIXED: Check setup (cygcheck -c) can not detect .tar.xz packages

At cygwin 1.7.25, cygcheck is hardcoded for .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. So check setup (cygcheck -c) can not detect .tar.xz packages. This bug was already fixed with src/winsup/utils/dump_setup.cc#rev1.28. Please wait a release of cygwin 1.7.26.

This Problem was fixed cygwin 1.7.26 which released at 2013-11-29.

elebeaup / apt-cyg