setup.exe command line parameters

Sun Jun 22 18:17:00 GMT 2008

Reini Urban wrote on 22 June 2008 16:52:
> Dave Korn schrieb:
>> Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 June 2008 20:21:
>>> Long story short, I ended up using a hacked older version of setup.exe
>>> that accepted a -p parameter and a list of packages. It worked great!
>>>>>> Is there a compelling reason why that patch can't be applied to the
>>> current setup and released? Are there security or stability issues I'm
>>> not thinking about? 
>>>>>> That being said, I CAN run setup.exe in unattended quiet mode and
>>> get a BASE cygwin install done, and I'm quite happy with that. But
>>> I'd really, really like to specify packages on the command line.
>>>>>> Can I help by offering to update the patch to the current setup?
>>>> Absolutely, yes, please! If you post it to the cygwin-apps list, with
>> a ChangeLog entry, I'll see what we can do about getting it applied.
>> You mean the patch from
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/16502 ?

 Uh, nope, not me, I don't mean anything. What Ralph means, you'll have to
ask him...
 (Thanks for the pointer though!)
 cheers,
 DaveK
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