Setup.ini file for Silent Install

Fri Mar 26 09:27:00 GMT 2010

Is there eventually a possibility of someone explaining to me why Jonathan
used my incredibly complex and hard to maintain method rather than
following Daves eloquent advice?!?
Although it's so funny that my message cam *after* somebody telling him how
to do this with setup.exe?!?

Never the less:
- Dave, thank so much you for posting setup.exe's command line switches.
That was probably the 1st thing Jonathan did.
- Christopher, thank you so much for telling the world how dumb everybody
is, that doens't do something your way.
- Ralf, thank you so much for posting two of your so simple batch files to
underline what you have in mind.

Guys: If you have a cooler/simpler/better to maintain way to do a
completely unattended installation of Cygwin: Great...I'd love to applaud
it. Please let the world take part --- or keep quiet.

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  From:       Ralph Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com>                                                                                                 

  To:         cygwin@cygwin.com                                                                                                               

  Date:       25.03.2010 13:39                                                                                                                

  Subject:    Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install                                                                                           

  Sent by:    cygwin-owner@cygwin.com                                                                                                         

RESEND - NOW WITH SPELLING MISTAKES FIXED...

Christoph Herdeg wrote:
> Hello Jonathan,
>
> I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this
is
> definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer
> (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination directory
> of "c:\cygwin":
>
> - First you need to create a customized installation on one machine using
> the "Download Only" option in setup.exe.

Hold it right there. No - Back up one step. Then read Dave Korn's reply
about using setup.exe and it's wonderful assortment of command line
switches.

OK, now test out a few of these switches on a clean install machine.

See how you can easily specify a place to put the downloaded
packages, how you can tell the installer where to get packages
from, how to tell it which packages you want, and even where to put
them on the local user's machine.

Imagine having a standard base install batch file for all your users,
then customized versions for certain departments.

Then imagine doing this all with nothing more complicated than
a simple .bat file.

While you are busy hacking out a complex, hard to maintain scheme
for doing a custom install, I'll be sipping a latte and dreaming
of a world where everyone takes the time to think about using the
tools at hand instead of chipping their own axe out of rocks....

Ralph

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