Un-attended install ALL

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Vinod Gupta wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> Lary Hall wrote:
>> 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! :-)
>>
> 
> Thanks Lary,
> 
> I am not sure what you mean by "empty package" and how do you make it 
> known to the installer?
> If I create a setup.hint and copy it to, say, release\base-files\, will 
> that work?
> This sounds like fooling the installer. I can't believe that there is 
> nothing like "--InstallAll" option to the setup.exe installer.


Fooling the installer into believing there is another package to install?
Yes, that should be outlawed. ;-)

Whatever you want to call it, this is the way to do it.  See:

<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>

if you haven't already.


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