From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16262 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2013 17:09:22 -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 16233 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2013 17:09:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173013pub.verizon.net Received: from Unknown (HELO vms173013pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:09:19 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [74.104.179.122]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MVR002PV0YL0450@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:08:50 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <5277D4A0.1050809@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:09:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure References: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C86D@MLBXv04.nih.gov> In-reply-to: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C86D@MLBXv04.nih.gov> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 On 11/4/2013 11:22 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Hello All, > > I am trying to help my site's Systems team to straighten up CYGWIN > installation process, which they will need to perform to build new > PCs, and I have volunteered to ask on their behalf here.. > > As far as they can tell, there is no such an installation option that > tells to install "everything from the download directory". What they > do is that they run setup.exe to manually check everything from the available > packages that they want to have installed on a PC, then they follow the option > to download any left-over package dependencies, from which step setup.exe takes > control and downloads / installs the selections. > > Now, they want to replay the setup unattended with using only those downloaded > packages again, on any other new PC, without going through the selection process > again, so basically to install everything that setup.exe has already > _downloaded_ to a certain directory when run manually (where all the > dependencies have already been satisfied, so the set is self-sufficient). > > How / Whether can they do such an install? Though I haven't experimented with this myself, I'd recommend looking at using "setup*.exe" on the command line and listing the packages to install there. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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