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Subject:	RE: setup.exe command line parameters
Date:	Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:29:54 +0100
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Reini Urban wrote on 22 June 2008 16:52:

> Dave Korn schrieb:
>> Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 June 2008 20:21:
>>> Long story short, I ended up using a hacked older version of setup.exe
>>> that accepted a -p parameter and a list of packages. It worked great!
>>> 
>>> Is there a compelling reason why that patch can't be applied to the
>>> current setup and released? Are there security or stability issues I'm
>>> not thinking about? 
>>> 
>>> That being said, I CAN run setup.exe in unattended quiet mode and
>>> get a BASE cygwin install done, and I'm quite happy with that. But
>>> I'd really, really like to specify packages on the command line.
>>> 
>>> Can I help by offering to update the patch to the current setup?
>> 
>>   Absolutely, yes, please!  If you post it to the cygwin-apps list, with
>> a ChangeLog entry, I'll see what we can do about getting it applied.
> 
> You mean the patch from
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/16502 ?


  Uh, nope, not me, I don't mean anything.  What Ralph means, you'll have to
ask him...

  (Thanks for the pointer though!)

    cheers,
      DaveK
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