From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13454 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2013 19:25:10 -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 13442 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2013 19:25:09 -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: vms173001pub.verizon.net Received: from Unknown (HELO vms173001pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:25:08 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [74.104.179.122]) by vms173001.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MVR00NIN78D3V80@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:24:18 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <5277F460.3070205@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:25:00 -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/24.1.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure 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> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40CA43@MLBXv04.nih.gov> In-reply-to: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40CA43@MLBXv04.nih.gov> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00091.txt.bz2 On 11/4/2013 2:04 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> Are you saying this won't work? >> Or do you just not like it? > > A little bit of both, actually. Windows CMD.EXE has an 8K limit on the command line > length, AFAICT. Even if that was not exceeded first time the package list > was created, it may easily get there on a complete re-run of the install procedure > (beginning with the manual package selection). The worst part is that it may > fail silently without setup even noticing until after the system is placed > into production (and failing because of the missing packages). OK, you certainly don't have to accept any alternative suggested. But it does sound to me like you're adding additional requirements that you didn't previously state. In other words, if using "setup*.exe" once manually to populate a download directory (or simply creating a package mirror) is enough to get you everything you need, you can certainly verify that it's possible to install from that directory using the script you've created. That should be all you need for at least one iteration of your unattended installs. If you plan to alter this process or the download directory on a regular basis, then certainly there is some overhead in verifying the script still works as you intend. No argument here. -- 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