X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; q=dns; s=default; b=pT+DTzaTrzbUrw2pwSt+TuYInDPQh ookq4W72vGb1azP1DXyKne/bjBF5mT2ntvLO36BGnxmeJRhZCtK+phSV4h1kn3yJ QBH4RLumLDgc0ajmkJEEgPWDXNW5m9qjSnN+LmtXzTUoQUNteiG7olTH9y861cPJ pDwVBHk9w6DZME= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; s=default; bh=HXW3Ck8rRe6ovkKu6vNL/d2aHB4=; b=o0M 4ruHtn9Ong20ivIfWYv3f+TCSQz61lEnX//1tbqa1kunBzwggV0CvBGDqFZs5mKH xWim4jj0UpXu8aexJSevz3YzWKI195I7Gd/GTOmS/huXsTOUYFMJtrCu+uzmhaMa pshtc2KZBIuXRtklADTjQ2Ccocai0wOVAYXpWJx4= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_60,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: nihxwayout.hub.nih.gov X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0GAHTvd1KcKEfa/2dsb2JhbABZgweBC78/gSsWbQeCJQEBAQMBEihECwIBCA0VFBAfExcBDQIEGxqHWQaiBpxVjhAKgQ04gyCBDgOOVJAaiyWDJoFpQQ From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:04:47 +0000 Message-ID: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40CA43@MLBXv04.nih.gov> References: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C86D@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277D4A0.1050809@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C913@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277DB67.5050903@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C962@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277E992.8070602@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <5277E992.8070602@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id rA4J5q2i032172 > Are you saying this won't work? > Or do you just not like it? A little bit of both, actually. Windows CMD.EXE has an 8K limit on the command line length, AFAICT. Even if that was not exceeded first time the package list was created, it may easily get there on a complete re-run of the install procedure (beginning with the manual package selection). The worst part is that it may fail silently without setup even noticing until after the system is placed into production (and failing because of the missing packages). Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple