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Subject: RE: Manage Cygwin packages in command-line (without using graphical  Setup.exe)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:12:07 -0600
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Monday, January 19, 2009 6:02 PM:
> Salokine Terata wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.automated>
>>> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli>
>> Yes, I have read them, but I don't find how to use it to install a
specified
>> package. 
>> Coud you give me an example to install my cron package?
> 
> Well I haven't done this myself, mind you, so this is untested but:
> 
> setup.exe -q -n -N -d -R c:\cygwin -s http://yourFavoriteMirror -l
> c:\localPackageDir
> 
> There isn't a flag that specifies individual packages, so this will
get
> and install all current packages.  If you want to control what gets
> installed, you could pull down the package(s) you want using 'wget' or
> 'curl' to your local package directory and then use the '-L' flag
> instead of the '-s' flag to install the package(s) you got, which will
> happen by default since these are the only new packages in your local
> package directory.  Alternatively, you can look in the cygwin and
> cygwin-apps email archives for discussions about this.  I believe
there
> was a patch offered to do this, but I'm not sure of its status.  You
> could also check the source in CVS for the current state of the
> available options.

The latest setup.exe snapshots contain such an option (at least since
2.602, perhaps earlier): '-P <comma-separated list of packages to
install>'.

-- 
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com

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