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On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote:

> > 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:
> >
> > <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>
> >
> > if you haven't already.
>
> I tried but failed :(
> I create allpackage as per instructions, here are contents:
>
> # cd <mymirror>
> # 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
                      ^^^
This is one thing that's wrong.  You should create an empty tarball and
then bzip2 it.  The size should be 46 bytes.

> -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.
> #

This is another.  You should use the genini script to generate setup.ini
(and/or setup.bz2, but setup.ini should suffice).

> Installer still installs only the Base packages.
> I thought genini did not generate good setup. I copied release/allpackage to
> <main>/release/ and added contents of above setup.hint to
> <main>/release/setup.ini
>
> Installer still installs only the Base packages :(
>
> What I am doing wrong?

You need more information in setup.ini than what's in your setup.hint.
Try browsing any of the mirrors for their setup.ini and use that as a
template.
	Igor
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