X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:23:00 +0200 From: Adrian Maier To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine In-Reply-To: <43CB6CA1.90300@equate.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <43C789D2.8020505@equate.dyndns.org> <1137201240.1365.251826199@webmail.messagingengine.com> <43C851B8.3000307@equate.dyndns.org> <1137203965.3893.251827605@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20060116075609.GB2088@efn.org> <20060116082330.GA3656@efn.org> <43CB6CA1.90300@equate.dyndns.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k0GANE4N004927 On 1/16/06, Chris Taylor wrote: > Adrian Maier wrote: > > On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > >>I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*". Run setup > >>--help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its > >>command line options into setup.log.full. Play with running it using > >>them on a previously prepared local download directory, with > >>non-default packages included either by changing setup.ini to add > >>"Base" to their category or adding a dummy mirror directory with a > >>setup.ini having a dummy package that has category Base and requires > >>the other packages you want. > > > > > > I see: this functionality is in development and therefore is well hidden > > for the moment. It's a shame that it's not clearly documented . > > > > > > setup --help displays nothing for me > > I suspect this is a cmd.exe or win2000 - related problem , > > because i have seen the same happening with other programs as well > > (namely qemu). > > > > > > Adrian Maier > > > > Please re-read what Yitzchak said - it outputs the list of options into > setup.log.full > > Just for emphasis, I'll say that again: *setup.log.full* > Open that for the options. Uh, you are right. Sorry guys, I haven't read the entire phrase written by Yitzchak ... my fault. It looks like I am too used to the idea of programs writing their messages to stdin/stdout . > In fact, it also puts them in setup.log > > The options you want are -L, -q, and -l, which are Install from local > directory, quiet installation (unattended), and local package directory, > respectively. Cheers, Adrian Maier -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/