From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21826 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2013 19:29:28 -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 21795 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2013 19:29:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from Unknown (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:29:26 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPps-0002L0-Oy for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:29:16 +0100 Received: from pd9eb0593.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.235.5.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:29:16 +0100 Received: from Stromeko by pd9eb0593.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:29:16 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:29:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87mwlkm0e5.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C86D@MLBXv04.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00094.txt.bz2 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] writes: > 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. There is an option for setup.exe to install a complete category. To make use of that you need to write a new setup.ini so that the packages you've selected are members of that particular group. > 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). They may say that they want this, but believe me that they actually don't. There's always some machines that will need a different selection of packages, if not initially then somewhere down the road. > How / Whether can they do such an install? If you really want to clone an existing installation, then copy over /etc/setup/installed.db into the new installation root and do a reinstall (there's no command line option for that). Alternatively, set all the versions in installed.db to zero and then let setup.exe do an "update", which is the default. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- 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