How to add a repository using apt-cyg

Question

In Ubuntu, you can run a line like

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:swi-prolog/stable

How to do it using apt-cyg in Cygwin windows?

Answer 1

You can run apt-cyg with the -m option to specify a mirror/repository. So this is what I did to install PHP from the Cygwinports repo.

apt-cyg update -m ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports

Then I was able to install the packages from that repo.

apt-cyg install php

Answer 2

Modern interface for apt-cyg from https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg is:

$ apt-cyg mirror ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports
$ apt-cyg update
$ apt-cyg install php

Repo with last WinXP support:

$ apt-cyg mirror ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2016/08/30/104223

Official main repo:

$ apt-cyg mirror http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

Multi sources support request on project github.

UPDATE As development under transcode-open is stalled since 2016 use updating heir: https://github.com/kou1okada/apt-cyg