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Re: Can I install cygwin from my own setup.ini?
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:16:55PM +0800, Pan ruochen wrote:
>Well, I was always confused in selecting/deselecting packages during
>setup. And I often got the information about some package is required
>by another in the final step. So I decided to try patching the setup
>source code to make the setup more easy for me (and maybe for other
>people).
>
>Until now I've added a package filter to the setup. The filter reads
>the package names from an user defined configuration file `setup.ame'
>if this file exists in the current diretory, removes all unnecessary
>packages from `setup.ini' before feeding the setup information to the
>ini parser. In the package chooser screen, only the packages expected
>by the user as well as their depent packages are seen. Make all
>packages are set as 'Install' or 'Reinstall' status and go next until
>download and setup are finished.
>Without the `setup.ame' file in the current directory, the setup
>process are as the same as normal.
>
>I would be very pleased to offer the setup patched binary excutable as
>well as the patched source package, if anyone gets in the same trouble
>as me during cygwin setup.
Hopefully you'll be offering a mailing list for discussing problems with
your patched setup.exe as well. It really isn't appropriate here.
cgf
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