Re: Building a common cygwin enviroment for network distribution

[Jason Pearce <jason dot pearce at ieee dot org>]

> I've looked around the Cygwin site for information on installation 
> that doesn't use the supplied setup.exe, and I've found a lot of "you 
> on your own" so I'm hoping to get some help here.  Thanks! 

What so wrong with setup.exe?

I am doing a similar cygwin roll out at my work site and I use 
setup.exe. It can be run with command line switches so that it does not 
prompt the user and installs/updates automatically. Then you just define 
you own custom package, add it to Base group and make it depend on all 
the pacakges you want installed by default.
See http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html

By staying with setup.exe your installation process will update as 
Cygwin does.

Jason


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