On 10.03.2010 15:56, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 3/10/2010 2:38 AM, Olle Olsson wrote:
Hi,
I found the following
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html
which might provide one practical solution. Will try this.
Thanks for the vote of confidence but since that was a fairly
labor intensive way of doing it and came at a time when 'setup.exe'
wasn't as equipped as it is today to handle this more directly, I
would no longer advocate going that route. Using 'setup.exe' at
the command line and specifying the packages you want is a better
way to go.
As I understand the sparse description setup --help gives for -P, you
would have to list all packages separately.
I don't feel that's easier than to use a slightly modified copy of
installed.db.
An option to use a package list from a file (ignoring version
information) would be helpful,
and a hint how to get that information from an existing installation.
Actually this reminds me of a script I made a few weeks ago to recover a
damaged installed.db (not strictly related, sorry);
After I had switched setup target directories (for a second test
installation of cygwin on a machine), somehow installed.db of my first
installation was missing all my extra packages and setup wanted to
install everything again, so I recovered installed.db from the package
directory. Script attached in case it's of interest for anyone.
------
Thomas
#! /bin/sh
#############################################################################
# recover broken installed.db from package download directory
packdir=$(cygpath $(cat /etc/setup/last-cache))
echo INSTALLED.DB 2
(cd "$packdir"; find . -name "*.bz2") |
sed -e "s,.*/,," -e "s,\(-[0-9]\), \1," -e "s,\([^ ]*\) \(.*\),\1\2 \1," |
sort -nr | uniq -f 1 | sort -n |
sed -e "s,\(.*\) \([^ ]*\),\2 \1 0,"
echo >&2
echo "Redirect output to /etc/setup/installed.db to overwrite (CAUTION!)" >&2
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