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Re: Modular setup?


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Alan Dobkin wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:44 PM +1100 Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:09, Chris Jefferson wrote:
> >> Now I think I can figure out how to get to these things, but
> >> I would personally perfer a nice command-line package utility
> >> which I could use to automate things (particularily an interest
> >> of mine, downloading binary patches to existing cached downloads
> >> to avoid having to redownload).
> >
> > No such beast for cygwin. There is a draft command line setup,
> > but it needs quite some work to get the GUI entangled functions
> > out of the GUI program, and it's low priority. There are command
> > line options to the GUI.
>
> If you're referring to Chris's cygupdate (formerly up2date) script,
> I recently tried to compile it, but it requires a Cygwin::Setup
> perl module that does not seem to be available in CVS.  My main
> goal is to be able to automate Cygwin installations on new machines
> so someone doesn't have to manually select each package in the GUI.
> I don't think this can be done with the existing command line
> options to the GUI, but please correct me if I'm wrong.  It looks
> like it can be done with cygupdate, but does anyone know where I
> can get the Setup.pm file?  Or, if there is another, better way
> to accomplish this, please let me know....
>
> Thanks,
> Alan

Create a custom local mirror where all the packages you want to be
installed by default are in the "Base" category, and then use setup in
unattended mode.
	Igor
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