X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <490B1E7D.10305@bmts.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:04:29 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell References: <20259653.post@talk.nabble.com> <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF30597D0CE@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> In-Reply-To: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF30597D0CE@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> 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 Thrall, Bryan wrote: > For example (untested), to install vim and bc: > > setup.exe -d -q -R 'c:\cygwin' -s 'http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/' > -l 'c:\cygwin\home\thrall' -P vim,bc I'm not sure, but I _think_ the -P is only available in the 1.7 setup. The -D and -L options are not specified in your example, so depending on the last action performed in the previous run of setup, you'll either get download to local, install from local, or both. Furthermore, there's a little bug (that I've previously submitted a patch for) that won't let you combine -D and -D on the same command line invocation - you have to do it twice, once with each option. But yes, the command line setup works well indeed! One thing nagging in the background is whether or not you can/should update your cygwin installation while any Cygwin processes are running. Cheers, 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/