I'm trying to do a custom, automated Cygwin install. I've read some earlier
messages on this list and elsewhere, and I thought I knew what to do, but it hasn't worked out. I did a manual GUI "download without installing" with the packages I wanted, into C:\Download\Cygwin; then I ran (all on one line): setup.exe --local-install --quiet-mode --no-shortcuts --root C:\Cygwin --local-package-directory C:\Download\Cygwin Good news: It put some file under C:\Cygwin\etc\ (I can't remember which). Bad news: It didn't install anything else, and it certainly didn't install any packages. On reflection, that kind of makes sense. If I was doing a manual GUI "Install from local directory", the next thing I would have to do is select which downloaded packages should be installed; but in my command line installation, I haven't told it to install any particular packages! What am I missing? --PSRC P.S.: There were other details that didn't work out as well as I'd hoped. Running setup.exe *starts* the installation; I don't know how to wail until the installation is complete. I was also surprised that the "local install" downloaded dozens of packages. Last, and definitely least, I was hoping the GUI would never appear. I'll address this last issue through a process known as "managing expectations".-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
