Un-attended install ALL

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Vinod Gupta wrote:
> On 10/3/2006 10:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote:
>>
>>  
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lary Hall wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>>       
>>> I tried but failed :(
>>> I create allpackage as per instructions, here are contents:
>>>
>>> # cd <mymirror>
>>> # ls -l release/allpackage/
>>> total 1.0K
>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 vinod   0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1-src.tar.bz2
>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 vinod   0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1.tar.bz2
>>>     
>>                       ^^^
>> This is one thing that's wrong.  You should create an empty tarball and
>> then bzip2 it.  The size should be 46 bytes.
>>
>>  
>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 vinod 650 2006-10-03 15:45 setup.hint
>>>
>>> # cat release/allpackage/setup.hint
>>> @ allpackage
>>> sdesc: "Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages"
>>> ldesc: "Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages"
>>> category: Base
>>> requires: X11 _update-info-dir alternatives ash base-files 
>>> base-passwd bash
>>> binutils bzip2 cabextract coreutils crypt cygrunsrv cygutils cygwin 
>>> cygwin-doc
>>> d db diffutils editrights expat file findutils gawk gcc gcc-mingw gdb 
>>> gdbm
>>> gettext grep groff gzip jpeg less libiconv libpng login make man 
>>> mingw-runtime
>>> minires mktemp ncurses openssh openssl pcre perl pine ping pkg-config
>>> pkgconfig popt readline run sed sharutils tar tcltk tcsh termcap 
>>> terminfo
>>> texinfo time tnef unzip w32api wget which zip zlib
>>>
>>> # bunzip setup.bz2
>>> # cat setup
>>>
>>> # This file is automatically generated.  If you edit it, your
>>> # edits will be discarded next time the file is generated.
>>> # See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details.
>>> #
>>>     
>>
>> This is another.  You should use the genini script to generate setup.ini
>> (and/or setup.bz2, but setup.ini should suffice).
>>
>>  
>>> Installer still installs only the Base packages.
>>> I thought genini did not generate good setup. I copied 
>>> release/allpackage to
>>> <main>/release/ and added contents of above setup.hint to
>>> <main>/release/setup.ini
>>>
>>> Installer still installs only the Base packages :(
>>>
>>> What I am doing wrong?
>>>     
>>
>> You need more information in setup.ini than what's in your setup.hint.
>> Try browsing any of the mirrors for their setup.ini and use that as a
>> template.
>>     Igor
>>   
> 
> OK, I think I found the problem and a work around, if not the solution.
> 
> The following line must be added to setup.ini even if the allpackage is 
> empty:
> install: release/allpackage/allpackage-0.0.1-1.tar.bz2
> 
> The installer is looking at only <main>/release/, and NOT 
> mymirror/release/. If I add allpackage folder to <main>/release/ and add 
> contents of setup.hint to <main>/setup.ini (including install: line) 
> then it works. But this is not a good solution because <main>/setup.ini 
> will be overwritten next time I update cygwin.
> 
> The local packages folder has two mirrors - the main (http%3a%2f.../) 
> and mymirror/ (which has only this empty allpackage). How do I tell 
> setup.exe to look inside BOTH mirrors?


Type in the name of your mirror site when you are asked for the mirrors
you wish to use.


> All this pain, just because some one did not include "--InstallAll" 
> option to setup.exe??


As the saying goes, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.  Of course, you
can always look to see if any of your issues with 'setup.exe' are addressed
by a snapshot <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>.


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