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RE: setup.exe gui testing
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>,"Stanislav Sinyagin" <ssinyagin at yahoo dot com>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:24:23 +1100
- Subject: RE: setup.exe gui testing
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:00 AM
> To: Stanislav Sinyagin; cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: setup.exe gui testing
>
>
> At 09:37 AM 3/28/2002, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
>
> >--- Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> wrote:
> > > I think that is a fine goal, but I don't see why that
> means removing
> > > functionality from the gui.
> >
> >once I've started dreaming, what about another pretty thing --
> >Jumpstart? A text file describing all setup options and packages, so
> >that you easily reproduce the whole installation on your new
> machine?
> >And of course, the jumpstart file generator.
>
>
> Before dreaming up too many things and posting them, you
> should review the ideas and functionality that has been
> discussed already. This particular feature already exists.
> All packages in the base category are installed by default.
> Simply add the packages you want to install to the "requires:"
> list.
Also, here's another tip:
Copy /etc/setup/installed.db to a c:\cygwin\etc\setup\installed.db
(adjust appropriately).
Run setup.exe on the new system, and choose 'reinstall' at the top level
category.
Rob