X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <485C0309.7080404@bmts.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:20:41 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: setup.exe command line parameters Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 With all of the talk about setup package selection and install procedures, I have a little story. One of the things I do for fun is write replacement firmware for the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT - specifically pbLua. I needed an easy way to build the ARM7 cross compiler, and to locate and program the NXT via libusb. More importantly, I needed to share how to build it, which I have not yet done. 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? Ralph -- 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/