The best solution to the problem of making a tailored Cygwin installation
Base + select handful of packages
but stopping short of Full (typically, well short of Full) seems to be
Igor Pechtchanski's offered at
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00528.html
but probably with other references too. I have been able to achieve this
many times in the past by incorporating a single additional paragraph
into setup.ini, located near the top immediately between the lines
setup-timestamp: xxxxxxxxxx
and
@ ELFIO
and typically looking something like
@ anynameilike
category: Base
requires: bc bison expect flex gcc make ncurses readline util-linux
version: 8
where the required list comes after requires: (and some version number
or other is necessary too).
Choose Default in setup.exe and away you go. You get Base + all your
requirements AND with all dependencies attended to.
This has worked many times in the past but today I have tried it for the
first time with the current version of setup.exe (and not for several
predecessors) and for no reason that I can discern the @ anynameilike
package is not being picked up. All that happens after choosing Default
is that Base is installed, with none of the bespoke extras and
dependencies that this algorithm is intended to achieve.
The only thing I can think of that might explain this is that maybe the
contrived package @ anynameilike needs to be located differently:
maybe alphabetically (ie between @ antiword and @ apache ??) whereas
previous versions of setup.exe have been more forgiving.
Dunno: but for the moment I seem to have lost this very useful
capability simply and efficiently to make a tailored installation, and I
wondered whether anybody else has tried this successfully in the past,
but unsuccessfully now?
Thank you.
Fergus
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