/etc/setup/last-* files and quiet setup conflict (was: Where does Cygwin store its parameters?)

[cuicui <cuicui dot oizo at free dot fr>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 04 December 2006 11:04, Dave Silvia wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm trying to write a script that knows what the user selected for
> >  parameters at installation.
>
> Are you sure this is the best way to achieve whatever end result 
> you're using?  Give us some more detail, maybe there's a better way 
> without having to know this stuff.
>
> > For example, What type of line endings (CRLF, LF, etc.). Where does
> >  Cygwin store this sort of information, if anywhere?
>
> The type of line-endings can be inferred from the mount-mode of the 
> root directory; it's not stored explicitly anywhere AFAIK.  Most of 
> the remaining information is stored in 
> /etc/setup/last-{action,cache,connection,mirror}.

BTW, i've recently planned to autoupdate the Cygwin environment (using
switches of setup.exe and a "virtual" package on "Base" category) on the
workstations i manage and i noticed that remaining /etc/setup/last-*
files take precedence over the setup switches.

In other words if the last action was "Install from Internet" and the
setup switch is "setup -L ...", the setup will try to download files
from Internet instead of using the local directory only.

That was an issue for me as far as my files are stored on a public SaMBa
share (read only).

Cleaning /etc/setup/last-* before setup files does the trick.

Anyway, this was just to mention a possible minor bug. Another
suggestion for quiet setup: no possibilities for the user to close the
window (equivalent to the "/qb!" option of msiexec) when using the quiet
option...

All the best,

Nicolas C.

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