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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Subject: Re: Making package installation default
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:11:53 -0700
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On 04/02/2010 04:46 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> On 4/2/2010 6:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>    
>> I maintain a local repository of Cygwin (IOW I download to a local
>> directory and then install from there). I let others use my repository.
>> I want to make it such that OpenSSH and rxvt are installed by default
>> but when they run setup.exe and point it to my repository OpenSSH and
>> rxvt are set to skip by default. How do I change that.
>>
>> (I would research this first myself but right now I can't. Sorry).
>>      
> Write a batch file which runs setup.exe using its command line options
> to point to your repository, select the additional packages, and run
> silently.  I did this with success using a full mirror hosted internally
> at the company for which I work.  You should be able to do something
> similar using your local repository; however, a full repository is nice
> to have too. :-)
>    
That might be doable (What command line options would I need?) however 
the people at work are a lot more point and clickly if you know what I 
mean. I would think it should be possible to simply toggle on something 
to say "Install this by default". I need to do some more research I 
guess but if anybody has the answer handy...
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
This is as bad as it can get, but don't bet on it.


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