On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Lars Munch wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:29PM -0500, Garg, Rajiv wrote: > > Does setup.exe support command-line options? If so, where can I find > > the documentation for them? I would like to roll-out Cygwin to 300+ > > machines and command-line options to install all packages found in > > network share would be simplest method, otherwise I might have to > > repackage it into a MSI using Wise Package Studio or something similar. > > I have tried to create a MSI package but the result is *very* slow > because of the size and a huge number of files, also sym-links did not > work after installation of the MSI package. > > Instead I use Nullsoft Scriptable Install System > http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ (remember to use -a to preserve file attributes). > Take a [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage for more information: > http://lwb1.it.dtu.dk/~lmc/rebuilt.php > > Anyway, I would also like to know the command-line options for setup (if > they exists) > > > I saw a discussion about adding support for this in the > > cygwin-developers mailing list (~ 10/2001, topic="setup.exe command-line > > options") -- but cannot find any documentation about whether this was > > completed. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Rajiv
Lars, "Use the source"^{TM} Seriously, there are no command-line options to speak of in the "official" setup.exe on the cygwin.com site (v. 2.249.2.5). There are quite a few in the CVS HEAD of setup.exe. A look at the source, however, will show you all the relevant options, with explanations. Check out the CVS HEAD (as described at <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html>), and grep all .cc files for "Option". There is even a patch outstanding that adds a "--help" option to list all available options: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00000.html> (with one caveat: setup has to be built as a Cygwin app from source for you to see console output). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/