X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Automated Cygwin install. References: <4475F48D.2040100@cygwin.com> From: Jarl Friis Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 21:26:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4475F48D.2040100@cygwin.com> (Larry Hall's message of "Thu, 25 May 2006 14:16:45 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.5 (chestnut, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 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 k4PJQcQF020283 Hi Larry, thanks for the reply. "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > Jarl Friis wrote: >> Hi. >> I have the following issue and according to google it seems like I am >> not the first one. >> I would like to tailor a package selection with the setup.exe >> utility, >> when that is done, I would like to make unattended installations of >> these packages on many machines. >> It seems like many people have questioned that before but I couldn't >> find good answers (the official recomended way) of doing so. Many >> answers on mailing lists refer to a dead link on unattended.sf.org >> The next best solution is of course to "copy" the package >> selection-set from one cygwin installation on one machine to another >> machine and the just run setup.exe with that package selection-set, so >> I don't have to spend 45minutes clicking around the GUI remembering >> which packages I selected in or out. >> Can someone enlight me of how to do this best. >> > > > Yep, that's one way. What do you mean? If you refer to my "next best solution", then please ellaborate on how I can actually do this. What cygwin file(s) contains the package selection-set from the GUI? > The other is to set up a local mirror with a setup.ini that includes > all the packages you want installed in the "Base" category. Running > 'setup.exe' and choosing that mirror will install the new list of > default packages. See the setup home page for details on this > (sorry, no direct pointer). I belive you mean this page: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html Jarl -- Jarl Friis Softace ApS Omøgade 8, 2.sal 2100 København Ø. Denmark Phone: +45 26 13 20 90 E-mail: jarl@softace.dk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarlfriis -- 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/