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Re: Scripting Installs? missing setup.hints
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Michael Adler" <adler at glimpser dot org>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 07:24:06 +1100
- Subject: Re: Scripting Installs? missing setup.hints
- References: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0201311414380.27720-100000@reva.sixgirls.org>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Adler" <adler@glimpser.org>
> > It's part of the sources.redhat.com infrastructure. It is in CVS
but it
> > is not intended for general use. I don't know if it is even
available
> > for anonymous CVS access.
>
> Am I to assume that you're not interested in making that script
available?
It's been visible via CVS, see the cygwin-apps archive. It's *not
supported* though.
> > In case it isn't really clear, I'm not really interested in making
> > setup.exe a general purpose tool for you to use internally. That
has
> > never been a goal, and I see nothing but headaches from moving in
that
> > direction.
>
> Granted, all that is clear to me. I appreciate that you're frank. Let
me
> try to ask again.
>
> I'm generating my own setup.ini since that's a good way to gain
control
> over what's being installed. I've written a program to handle this by
> integrating a stale version of a setup.ini from cygwin.com and some
> setup.hints. (ideally this would all come dynamically from
setup.hints)
You don't need to generate your own complete setup.ini. Use the latest
setup.exe snapshot (for now), and generate a 'merge' setup.ini that only
adds/changes any fields you care about. It's been designed to allow
corporate fiddles in that respect.
That said, I've no objection (heh, because I didn't write upset!) to it
floating about, but any questions on it's operation etc etc will be
offtopic here and in cyg-apps. The decision is Chris's 'cause it's his
script (I can only speak for setup.exe).
Rob
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