From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31289 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2008 16:30:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 31281 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jun 2008 16:30:22 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (194.72.81.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:29:57 +0000 Received: from ALBATROSS ([192.168.8.39]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:29:54 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <485C0309.7080404@bmts.com> <005601c8d39f$3e3cc550$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <485E7502.3030200@x-ray.at> Subject: RE: setup.exe command line parameters Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:17:00 -0000 Message-ID: <00c901c8d485$3389b1e0$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <485E7502.3030200@x-ray.at> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00449.txt.bz2 Reini Urban wrote on 22 June 2008 16:52: > Dave Korn schrieb: >> Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 June 2008 20:21: >>> Long story short, I ended up using a hacked older version of setup.exe >>> that accepted a -p parameter and a list of packages. It worked great! >>> >>> Is there a compelling reason why that patch can't be applied to the >>> current setup and released? Are there security or stability issues I'm >>> not thinking about? >>> >>> That being said, I CAN run setup.exe in unattended quiet mode and >>> get a BASE cygwin install done, and I'm quite happy with that. But >>> I'd really, really like to specify packages on the command line. >>> >>> Can I help by offering to update the patch to the current setup? >> >> Absolutely, yes, please! If you post it to the cygwin-apps list, with >> a ChangeLog entry, I'll see what we can do about getting it applied. > > You mean the patch from > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/16502 ? Uh, nope, not me, I don't mean anything. What Ralph means, you'll have to ask him... (Thanks for the pointer though!) cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/