Un-attended install ALL

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Vinod K Gupta wrote:
> We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install cygwin on
> user machines. When we perform un-attended installation using setup.exe -q
> -L -l -R... the installer installs only the Base packages. How can we tell
> setup to install ALL available packages?


There are many ways but the easiest is to create a setup.hint file
with an empty package that's part of the Base category.  Then list all the
packages you want to install as its dependencies.  Obviously, you can leave
out other base packages.  Voila! :-)



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