X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <452314B5.8020008@princeton.edu> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:56:05 -0400 From: Vinod Gupta User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Un-attended install ALL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > Vinod Gupta wrote: > > 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. > > > > Lary Hall wrote: > Fooling the installer into believing there is another package to install? > Yes, that should be outlawed. ;-) > > Whatever you want to call it, this is the way to do it. See: > > > > if you haven't already. I tried but failed :( I create allpackage as per instructions, here are contents: # cd # ls -l release/allpackage/ total 1.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1-src.tar.bz2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1.tar.bz2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 650 2006-10-03 15:45 setup.hint # cat release/allpackage/setup.hint @ allpackage sdesc: "Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages" ldesc: "Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages" category: Base requires: X11 _update-info-dir alternatives ash base-files base-passwd bash binutils bzip2 cabextract coreutils crypt cygrunsrv cygutils cygwin cygwin-doc d db diffutils editrights expat file findutils gawk gcc gcc-mingw gdb gdbm gettext grep groff gzip jpeg less libiconv libpng login make man mingw-runtime minires mktemp ncurses openssh openssl pcre perl pine ping pkg-config pkgconfig popt readline run sed sharutils tar tcltk tcsh termcap terminfo texinfo time tnef unzip w32api wget which zip zlib # bunzip setup.bz2 # cat setup # This file is automatically generated. If you edit it, your # edits will be discarded next time the file is generated. # See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details. # Installer still installs only the Base packages. I thought genini did not generate good setup. I copied release/allpackage to
/release/ and added contents of above setup.hint to
/release/setup.ini Installer still installs only the Base packages :( What I am doing wrong? Vinod -- 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/