On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:26:27PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 9/9/2011 7:52 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> Here's what mine looks like: >> >> setup.exe ^ >> --no-shortcuts ^ >> --quiet-mode ^ >> --disable-buggy-antivirus ^ >> --packages ^ >> aria2,^ >> atool,^ >> autoconf,^ >> automake,^ >> autossh,^ > >Step 2: A script that can write out such a script to clone an existing >installation. Just translate the contents of /etc/setup/installed.db to >the form --packages wants.
>Step 3: Modify the script to find the last-used setup.ini (registry?), >put the packages there into a dependency graph, then compute the minimum >set of packages needed to clone the installation. I was thinking about that too. Don't you get into potential trouble when dealing with packages whose name also reflects their version like libncurses? >No, I am not volunteering. :) I might volunteer. This has come up often enough that it seems like it would be a useful thing to have. cgf -- 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