Making package installation default

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 4/2/2010 11:11 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
> On 04/02/2010 04:46 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>> On 4/2/2010 6:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>> I maintain a local repository of Cygwin (IOW I download to a local
>>> directory and then install from there). I let others use my repository.
>>> I want to make it such that OpenSSH and rxvt are installed by default
>>> but when they run setup.exe and point it to my repository OpenSSH and
>>> rxvt are set to skip by default. How do I change that.
>>>
>>> (I would research this first myself but right now I can't. Sorry).
>> Write a batch file which runs setup.exe using its command line options
>> to point to your repository, select the additional packages, and run
>> silently. I did this with success using a full mirror hosted internally
>> at the company for which I work. You should be able to do something
>> similar using your local repository; however, a full repository is nice
>> to have too. :-)
> That might be doable (What command line options would I need?) however
> the people at work are a lot more point and clickly if you know what I
> mean. I would think it should be possible to simply toggle on something
> to say "Install this by default". I need to do some more research I
> guess but if anybody has the answer handy...

'setup.exe' doesn't support the GUI you're supposing.  So it's the command
line option or PTC. ;-)  I would think a batch file that one can point and
click on would satisfy the "point and clicky" crowd but I'm sure you
understand your users better than I.

'setup.exe --help' at a command line will give you the list of possible
options.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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