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RE: Customizable cygwin setup.exe
- From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:59:44 -0500
- Subject: RE: Customizable cygwin setup.exe
- References: <50bc627b0910091344w55c6d512ved01dcc28e696c63@mail.gmail.com> <50bc627b0910091350j600de8b6r57dc19b762fce0c4@mail.gmail.com> <50bc627b0910091424u102c5fa9i1d0513b90beaadb6@mail.gmail.com> <4ACFAE16.5060502@bmts.com>
Ralph Hempel wrote on Friday, October 09, 2009 4:42 PM:
> Miles Gazic wrote:
>> I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some
>> people that got confused when installing cygwin. I've had the same
>> problem at previous jobs, where people are confused when installing
>> cygwin, and it makes them reluctant to do so.
>>
>> I investigated what's required to customize the cygwin installer to
>> make it run without any manual interaction.
>
> Arrrgggh. What is so hard about using the -P option? Here's my
standard
> DOS batch file for installing Cygwin. Just change the download site
> and other bits you need for your install, and add packages to the
> PACKAGES variable.
>
> Why does everyone insist on rewriting the wheel? It took a lot of
> work to knock the sharp bits off setup.exe (1.7) - so let's
> use it!
For people who still want to use 1.5, there are beta versions of
setup.exe (see setup-2.602.exe in http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/)
that support the -P option, too.
--
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com
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