X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45226863.1090803@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:40:51 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Un-attended install ALL References: <4521F8C3.9030909@princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <4521F8C3.9030909@princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm 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 Vinod Gupta wrote: >> Vinod K Gupta wrote: >>> We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install >>> cygwin on >>> user machines. When we perform un-attended installation using >>> setup.exe -q >>> -L -l -R... the installer installs only the Base packages. How can we >>> tell >>> setup to install ALL available packages? >> >> Lary Hall wrote: >> There are many ways but the easiest is to create a setup.hint file >> with an empty package that's part of the Base category. Then list all >> the >> packages you want to install as its dependencies. Obviously, you can >> leave >> out other base packages. Voila! :-) >> > > Thanks Lary, > > I am not sure what you mean by "empty package" and how do you make it > known to the installer? > If I create a setup.hint and copy it to, say, release\base-files\, will > that work? > This sounds like fooling the installer. I can't believe that there is > nothing like "--InstallAll" option to the setup.exe installer. Fooling the installer into believing there is another package to install? Yes, that should be outlawed. ;-) Whatever you want to call it, this is the way to do it. See: if you haven't already. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/