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On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote:
Vinod Gupta wrote:
Vinod K Gupta wrote:
We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install cygwin on user machines. When we perform un-attended installation using setup.exe -q -L -l -R... the installer installs only the Base packages. How can we tell setup to install ALL available packages?
Lary Hall wrote: There are many ways but the easiest is to create a setup.hint file with an empty package that's part of the Base category. Then list all the packages you want to install as its dependencies. Obviously, you can leave out other base packages. Voila! :-)
Thanks Lary,
I am not sure what you mean by "empty package" and how do you make it known to the installer? If I create a setup.hint and copy it to, say, release\base-files\, will that work? This sounds like fooling the installer. I can't believe that there is nothing like "--InstallAll" option to the setup.exe installer.
Lary Hall wrote: Fooling the installer into believing there is another package to install? Yes, that should be outlawed. ;-)
Whatever you want to call it, this is the way to do it. See:
<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>
if you haven't already.
I tried but failed :( I create allpackage as per instructions, here are contents:
# cd <mymirror>
# ls -l release/allpackage/
total 1.0K
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1-src.tar.bz2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 0 2006-10-03 15:39 allpackage-0.0.1-1.tar.bz2
^^^ This is one thing that's wrong. You should create an empty tarball and then bzip2 it. The size should be 46 bytes.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vinod 650 2006-10-03 15:45 setup.hint
# cat release/allpackage/setup.hint @ allpackage sdesc: "Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages" ldesc: "Dummy package to include all my non-Base packages" category: Base requires: X11 _update-info-dir alternatives ash base-files base-passwd bash binutils bzip2 cabextract coreutils crypt cygrunsrv cygutils cygwin cygwin-doc d db diffutils editrights expat file findutils gawk gcc gcc-mingw gdb gdbm gettext grep groff gzip jpeg less libiconv libpng login make man mingw-runtime minires mktemp ncurses openssh openssl pcre perl pine ping pkg-config pkgconfig popt readline run sed sharutils tar tcltk tcsh termcap terminfo texinfo time tnef unzip w32api wget which zip zlib
# bunzip setup.bz2 # cat setup
# This file is automatically generated. If you edit it, your
# edits will be discarded next time the file is generated.
# See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details.
#
This is another. You should use the genini script to generate setup.ini (and/or setup.bz2, but setup.ini should suffice).
Installer still installs only the Base packages. I thought genini did not generate good setup. I copied release/allpackage to <main>/release/ and added contents of above setup.hint to <main>/release/setup.ini
Installer still installs only the Base packages :(
What I am doing wrong?
You need more information in setup.ini than what's in your setup.hint.
Try browsing any of the mirrors for their setup.ini and use that as a
template.
Igor
The following line must be added to setup.ini even if the allpackage is empty: install: release/allpackage/allpackage-0.0.1-1.tar.bz2
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