From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28701 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2013 19:33:45 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 28674 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2013 19:33:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from Unknown (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:33:44 +0000 Received: from pool-98-110-183-69.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([98.110.183.69] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPu4-000FBm-7X for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:33:36 +0000 Received: from cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id D25C160120 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 14:33:33 -0500 (EST) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18H7UqbkqqLNwzGrZ9veLYY Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:33:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure Message-ID: <20131104193333.GF5526@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C86D@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277D4A0.1050809@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C913@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277DB67.5050903@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C962@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277E992.8070602@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40CA72@MLBXv04.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40CA72@MLBXv04.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:11:33PM +0000, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> Alternatively, you can grab the sources for setup and add an option >to do what you want the way you want it. > >Well, that's a trivial option with open source, of course. But also >it means to maintain a branch of our own setup.exe, which is the >least favorable of all. Hmm. It seems like you are looking for a magic bullet since everything suggested is unsatisfactory. Since there really isn't an option to do exactly what you want to do then you are going to have to do something. The emphasis here is on "you". If you implement a generally useful option like "Install everything in the download directory" we'll gladly accept it upstream. If you don't want to do that then setup code changes pretty infrequently so maintaining a local copy shouldn't be too burdensome. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple