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Re: setup.exe and 'default/skip/install/reinstall' question


Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> writes:

> On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 21:08, Leon KUKOVEC wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I read the documents about setup.hint and setup.ini but I could not find the
> > answer to my question.
> > 
> > I want to change the 'default' install behaviour of setup.exe so that it will
> > include packages I want and not the vanilla-default ones. I also want to
> > remove some of the packages from the vanilla-default list. In our company we
> > use cygwin, but everytime a new engineer wants to install cygwin, that person
> > pops in my cube and asks what packages should be installed.
> > 
> > I am willing to automate that by either editing setup.ini or setup.hint or any
> > other method, but I could not find the description how to do that.
> 
> Setup a local mirror and a setup.ini. Include in the setup.ini simply
> the package names you want to include, and the category 'base' or
> 'misc'.

This will cause Setup to only list those packages in the chooser window.
But will the non-base packages be installed by default?  I.e., will they come
up "Skip" or <current-version> in the chooser window?  When I download to a
directory, and then use that directory to install, I see only the packages I
downloaded, but I still have to manually select to install the non-base
packages I downloaded.

                        -Len

> 
> You cannot safely remove pacakges from the default - we keep that as
> lean as we can. Thus, setup is *not designed* to enable you doing that.
> I will *consider* patches to do that though.
> 
> Rob
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