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Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times
Really interesting but useless to solve my problem
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Ralph Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> For the time being, you should be able to dump the mount table to a .bat
>> file with "mount -m" and then run the .bat on the system that has the
>> copied installation.
>>
>> This technique probably won't work in Cygwin 1.7.x when it is released,
>> though.
>
> Funny enough, this is the kind of problem that is solved by being able
> to run the Cygwin setup from the command line.
>
> On my own system, I keep a downloaded repository in a special folder that is
> shared read-only with other computers on the network.
>
> When I want to roll out my standard Cygwin install on other machines,
> which may be vmWare machines or other developer's machines, I just
> give them my specially patched setup.exe that accepts package names
> and a batch file that runs setup and requests the packages needed for
> a clean install plus a few extra packages.
>
> Run the batch file, and presto, each developer has the same basic set of
> packages without monkeying around with the GUI.
>
> Cheers, Ralph
>
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