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> Vinod K Gupta wrote:
>> We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install 
>> cygwin on
>> user machines. When we perform un-attended installation using 
>> setup.exe -q
>> -L -l -R... the installer installs only the Base packages. How can we 
>> tell
>> setup to install ALL available packages?
>
> Lary Hall wrote:
> There are many ways but the easiest is to create a setup.hint file
> with an empty package that's part of the Base category.  Then list all 
> the
> packages you want to install as its dependencies.  Obviously, you can 
> leave
> out other base packages.  Voila! :-)
>

Thanks Lary,

I am not sure what you mean by "empty package" and how do you make it 
known to the installer?
If I create a setup.hint and copy it to, say, release\base-files\, will 
that work?
This sounds like fooling the installer. I can't believe that there is 
nothing like "--InstallAll" option to the setup.exe installer.

Vinod

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