Dave Korn wrote:
On 04 December 2006 11:04, Dave Silvia wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to write a script that knows what the user selected for
parameters at installation.
Are you sure this is the best way to achieve whatever end result
you're using? Give us some more detail, maybe there's a better way
without having to know this stuff.
For example, What type of line endings (CRLF, LF, etc.). Where does
Cygwin store this sort of information, if anywhere?
The type of line-endings can be inferred from the mount-mode of the
root directory; it's not stored explicitly anywhere AFAIK. Most of
the remaining information is stored in
/etc/setup/last-{action,cache,connection,mirror}.
BTW, i've recently planned to autoupdate the Cygwin environment (using
switches of setup.exe and a "virtual" package on "Base" category) on the
workstations i manage and i noticed that remaining /etc/setup/last-*
files take precedence over the setup switches.
In other words if the last action was "Install from Internet" and the
setup switch is "setup -L ...", the setup will try to download files
from Internet instead of using the local directory only.
That was an issue for me as far as my files are stored on a public SaMBa
share (read only).
Cleaning /etc/setup/last-* before setup files does the trick.
Anyway, this was just to mention a possible minor bug. Another
suggestion for quiet setup: no possibilities for the user to close the
window (equivalent to the "/qb!" option of msiexec) when using the quiet
option...
All the best,
Nicolas C.
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