Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] writes: > As far as they can tell, there is no such an installation option that > tells to install "everything from the download directory". What they > do is that they run setup.exe to manually check everything from the available > packages that they want to have installed on a PC, then they follow the option > to download any left-over package dependencies, from which step setup.exe > takes > control and downloads / installs the selections.
There is an option for setup.exe to install a complete category. To make use of that you need to write a new setup.ini so that the packages you've selected are members of that particular group. > Now, they want to replay the setup unattended with using only those downloaded > packages again, on any other new PC, without going through the selection > process > again, so basically to install everything that setup.exe has already > _downloaded_ to a certain directory when run manually (where all the > dependencies have already been satisfied, so the set is self-sufficient). They may say that they want this, but believe me that they actually don't. There's always some machines that will need a different selection of packages, if not initially then somewhere down the road. > How / Whether can they do such an install? If you really want to clone an existing installation, then copy over /etc/setup/installed.db into the new installation root and do a reinstall (there's no command line option for that). Alternatively, set all the versions in installed.db to zero and then let setup.exe do an "update", which is the default. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- 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
