Ralph Hempel wrote on Friday, October 09, 2009 4:42 PM: > Miles Gazic wrote: >> I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some >> people that got confused when installing cygwin. I've had the same >> problem at previous jobs, where people are confused when installing >> cygwin, and it makes them reluctant to do so. >> >> I investigated what's required to customize the cygwin installer to >> make it run without any manual interaction. > > Arrrgggh. What is so hard about using the -P option? Here's my standard > DOS batch file for installing Cygwin. Just change the download site > and other bits you need for your install, and add packages to the > PACKAGES variable. > > Why does everyone insist on rewriting the wheel? It took a lot of > work to knock the sharp bits off setup.exe (1.7) - so let's > use it!
For people who still want to use 1.5, there are beta versions of setup.exe (see setup-2.602.exe in http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/) that support the -P option, too. -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- 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