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Fwd: Re: Install of predefined packages
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: a12 at swipnet dot se,cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:49:41 -0500
- Subject: Fwd: Re: Install of predefined packages
My first post of this bounced for some, annoying reason. ;-)
>I believe the thread I pointed you to has the solution
>for how to get your local mirror packages (whatever they
>might be) installed by default with setup (i.e. add them to
>the base package). If you're looking to restrict user
>interaction so that there are no options that the user
>can select at all via setup (or you want to limit them in
>some way), I don't know that you can do that currently (others
>might know otherwise and may chime in... looking at the source
>is the only solution I can offer in this regard). There are
>some command line options to the new setup but you'll need
>to review the email archives for this list to find out what
>they are and if they'll help you further with this goal (assuming
>you don't peruse the source of course).
>
>Larry
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: a12 a12@swipnet.se
>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:03:02 +0100
>To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com, lhall@rfk.com
>Subject: Re: Install of predefined packages
>
>
>Hello Larry,
>
>Thank you for your reply.
>
>I have read (and reread) the mentioned post and all following
>posts.
>The proposed solution is to create a local mirror, and let it
>be included into the list of available mirrors during execution
>of Cygwin setup.exe
>
>I would like to have a setup.exe that allows the installer to
>install all packages from the local mirror only and not let
>the installer choose which packages to install (as is done with
>Cygwin setup.exe).
>
>Another solution would be to create my own setup.exe, if I do
>know what Cygwin setup.exe does. Can you provide that
>information ?
>
>
>"lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com" wrote:
>
> > Actually, this has been discussed, though I expect it was probably
> > at cygwin-apps@cygwin.com. You may want to look there. A quick search
> > of the archives unearthed the URL below, which I believe is your question
> > as well.
> >
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-09/msg00214.html
> >
> > If you have further questions about this that aren't answered in that
> > thread or the setup documentation at the Cygwin web site, please
> > post them to cygwin-apps.com. I've redirected the address for this email
> > to cygwin-apps@cygwin.com in the event that you need to continue this
> > thread.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From: a12 a12@swipnet.se
> > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:40:59 +0100
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Install of predefined packages
> >
> > Hello cygwin gurus,
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance but after scanning mailing lists online, I
> > have not found any hints to my question.
> >
> > I would like to roll out a predefined set of packages to a
> > number of WinNT/Win2K PC. I have fetched setup.exe, and
> > obtained the desired packages to H:\cygwin, and installed them
> > into C:\cygwin . I used setup.exe to mark the desired packages.
> > Now I would like to omit marking the desired packages, and
> > just install all the packages. Is it possible ?
> >
> > Any hints will be greatly appreciated.
> >
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