how to automatically install all local packages

[Max Bowsher]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Tod Courtney wrote:
>
>> I can use the command line flags to specify a local install from my
>> installation directory (-L), and the location where cygwin shuld be
>> installed (-R).  And I can specify that cygwin be installed without all 
>> of
>> the prompts and interactive options (-q).  But I do not know how to 
>> change
>> the package chooser from 'default' to 'install', so that all the packages
>> in my installation directory are automatically installed.
>>
>> Please let me know if there is a way to force cygwin to install all
>> packages in the local package directory.  Ideally a command line option 
>> to
>> change the
>
> I don't think there's any way to do this directly.  It's been requested
> before the ability to specify on the command line certain packages to
> install, and I think that would be a useful feature to have for people
> in your situation.
>
> You might be able to kludge it though.  If you provided an
> /etc/setup/installed.db that listed each desired package with a version
> of '0', then setup should see that the package is already installed and
> try to upgrade it to the current available version.  E.g. place a line
> "foo foo-0-0.tar.bz2 0" for each package that you wish to be 'upgraded'
> (i.e. installed.)  If there are no mounts on the system, though, I'm not
> sure if setup will know where to find /etc/setup/, so you might have to
> add the mounts before running setup.  Since you already know the
> location where Cygwin will be installed, that should be feasible.

The above should work, but there is another option:

Edit the local setup.ini, placing everything you want installed into the 
category "Misc". (They can be in other categories too). Anything in either 
"Misc" or "Base" will always be selected for installation.

Max.