Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:29:42 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Alan Dobkin cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Modular setup? In-Reply-To: <1456737390.1075806699@[192.168.70.4]> Message-ID: References: <401EF4CF DOT 9010300 AT cs DOT york DOT ac DOT uk> <1075812281 DOT 1481 DOT 8 DOT camel AT localhost> <1456737390.1075806699@[192.168.70.4]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Alan Dobkin wrote: > On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:44 PM +1100 Robert Collins wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:09, Chris Jefferson wrote: > >> Now I think I can figure out how to get to these things, but > >> I would personally perfer a nice command-line package utility > >> which I could use to automate things (particularily an interest > >> of mine, downloading binary patches to existing cached downloads > >> to avoid having to redownload). > > > > No such beast for cygwin. There is a draft command line setup, > > but it needs quite some work to get the GUI entangled functions > > out of the GUI program, and it's low priority. There are command > > line options to the GUI. > > If you're referring to Chris's cygupdate (formerly up2date) script, > I recently tried to compile it, but it requires a Cygwin::Setup > perl module that does not seem to be available in CVS. My main > goal is to be able to automate Cygwin installations on new machines > so someone doesn't have to manually select each package in the GUI. > I don't think this can be done with the existing command line > options to the GUI, but please correct me if I'm wrong. It looks > like it can be done with cygupdate, but does anyone know where I > can get the Setup.pm file? Or, if there is another, better way > to accomplish this, please let me know.... > > Thanks, > Alan Create a custom local mirror where all the packages you want to be installed by default are in the "Base" category, and then use setup in unattended mode. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/