* Aborting Cygwin setup in unattended modes
@ 2024-06-22 6:45 David Allsopp
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From: David Allsopp @ 2024-06-22 6:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Cygwin Mailing List
If Cygwin's setup requires input (for example, to select a mirror),
with --quiet-mode hidden it simply terminates (there's no apparent
exit status or message, though).
With --quiet-mode noinput, Cygwin setup sits at the appropriate
dialog, but it's of course non-responsive.
Would it be possible in these situations for Cygwin to abort,
preferably with a non-zero exit code?
The background to this was running Cygwin setup in GitHub Actions (so
UI not visible), _without_ specifying --site, where the Cygwin
installation had been restored by actions/cache but not the registry
setting in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup meaning that setup could not
find setup.rc and consequently determine the last-used mirror. The GUI
therefore invisibly froze at mirror selection.
That issue has obviously been fixed, but it would seem sensible that
Cygwin's setup doesn't ever display a dialog _requiring_ input where
all that input has been disabled!
David
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