[PATCH] Add chooser-only mode to setup.exe

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Fri Feb 19 20:16:00 GMT 2010


On 19/02/2010 09:49, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Dave Korn:
>>  I think we talked about this idea before once.  It's a variant of
>> setup.exe's unattended mode that skips through everything automatically except
>> for the chooser page.  I decided to call it 'package manager mode', because
>> that's what I'm planning on using it for
> 
> Thank you very much for implementing this; very convenient.
> 
> One problem: if the selected mirror is out of action, 'setup -M' goes
> into an endless loop trying to fetch setup.ini.

  Blargle!  Thanks for the report, I'll get onto it when I get a chance (gcc
4.5 is a higher priority for me right now so probably not until next week,
unless someone else jumps in.)

    cheers,
      DaveK



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