On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:16:55PM +0800, Pan ruochen wrote: >Well, I was always confused in selecting/deselecting packages during >setup. And I often got the information about some package is required >by another in the final step. So I decided to try patching the setup >source code to make the setup more easy for me (and maybe for other >people). > >Until now I've added a package filter to the setup. The filter reads >the package names from an user defined configuration file `setup.ame' >if this file exists in the current diretory, removes all unnecessary >packages from `setup.ini' before feeding the setup information to the >ini parser. In the package chooser screen, only the packages expected >by the user as well as their depent packages are seen. Make all >packages are set as 'Install' or 'Reinstall' status and go next until >download and setup are finished. >Without the `setup.ame' file in the current directory, the setup >process are as the same as normal. > >I would be very pleased to offer the setup patched binary excutable as >well as the patched source package, if anyone gets in the same trouble >as me during cygwin setup.
Hopefully you'll be offering a mailing list for discussing problems with your patched setup.exe as well. It really isn't appropriate here. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/