> Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > why is the MD5 check performed every time? > > A good question. > > > Because in the five minutes from now on, my packages > > may be corrupted? > > > > How can I get rid of it? > > There is a command line option to disable: -5 > But what about starting setup directly from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe or refering through a link from another website like the kde-cygwin project does ? This does not work.
There may be a possibility (1) to use an url like http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?option=... but this require, that some cgi or other server based scripting language does some tricks in choosing different setup.exe's online or patching the delivered delivered setup.exe online. A simpler way (2) would be using different setup.exe's with prefined options[1] like http://www.cygwin.com/setup-5.exe or http://www.cygwin.com/setup-<other_option>.exe but this require patched setup.exe versions on the server. In the last week I had send a prelimary patch to Robert Collins privat for checking if this is usable , which allow exactly [1], but until now I haven't heard anything about the useness of this. Anyway, I have added this patch to this mail. Perhaps someone find is useful. A short howto (for details see the appended mail): 1. export the configuration from setup.exe ./setup-config.exe -r setup.exe >setup.config 2. edit the configuration file Example: CustomConfig (Structure version: 2) { mirror_url=http://xyz/mirrors.lst root_dir=\test show_splash_screen=0 show_chooser_screen=0 .... } 3a. import the configuration into setup.exe ./setup-config.exe -w setup.exe <setup.config or 3a. create a different setup.exe with this configuration cp setup.exe setup-<option>.exe ./setup-config.exe -w setup-<option>.exe <setup.config Cheers Ralf
--- Begin Message ---Hi Robert, for a special use of the cygwin setup tool, there is the need for several project related customized setup.exe. Some examples for this are the default 'root_dir', the default location of the mirrors.lst files and some unwanted setting pages like the splash screen, network setting page and so one. I does not like to recompile the setup.exe every time the configuration is changed, so I've implemented a feature called "custom configuration", which allows patching a already compiled setup.exe to customized some major settings. I'm sending this proposal to you personal before sending it to the cygwin mailing list because I like to hear, if such a feature would be nice or not. I would be glad to hear your comments and suggestions. Some notes of the implementation are mentioned below. Thanks Ralf from customconfig.h " setup customisation support allows generating a partially customized version of setup.exe through a special helper application named 'setup-config.exe', which reads the activated customizable parameters or patches the setup.exe binary to change the customizable parameters. Customizable parameters could be added to an application through the CUSTOM_CONFIG_PARAMS(instance_name) macro, which defines an object named 'instance_name' of the CustomConfigParams structure. Refering to customizable settings is done by referening the object members of global object. For example: #ifdef CUSTOM_CONFIG_SUPPORT extern CustomConfigParams ccParams; set_root_dir (String (windir) + ccParams.root_dir); #else set_root_dir (String (windir) + "\\cygwin"); #endif Adding additional parameters is done by adding/patching some lines to the file 'customconfig.h'. 1. Add a member to the 'CustomConfigParams' structure 2. Add a default value to the 'CUSTOM_CONFIG_PARAMS' macro 3. Add a printing statement to the 'CUSTOM_CONFIG_PRINT_ITEMS' macro 4. Add a parsing statement to the 'CUSTOM_CONFIG_SCAN_ITEMS' macro 5. Increment the value of the CCP_VERSION macro to reflect the structure changes 6. Recompile setup.exe and setup-config.exe configuring setup.exe ===================== Configuring setup.exe is done via the helper tool setup-config.exe. 1. export the configuration from setup.exe ./setup-config.exe -r >setup.config 2. edit the configuration file Example: CustomConfig (Structure version: 2) { mirror_url=http://w2kserver01/fm root_dir=\test show_splash_screen=0 show_chooser_screen=0 } 3. import the configuration into setup.exe ./setup-config.exe -w <setup.config
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