Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Monday, January 19, 2009 6:02 PM: > Salokine Terata wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.automated> >>> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli> >> Yes, I have read them, but I don't find how to use it to install a specified >> package. >> Coud you give me an example to install my cron package? > > Well I haven't done this myself, mind you, so this is untested but: > > setup.exe -q -n -N -d -R c:\cygwin -s http://yourFavoriteMirror -l > c:\localPackageDir > > There isn't a flag that specifies individual packages, so this will get > and install all current packages. If you want to control what gets > installed, you could pull down the package(s) you want using 'wget' or > 'curl' to your local package directory and then use the '-L' flag > instead of the '-s' flag to install the package(s) you got, which will > happen by default since these are the only new packages in your local > package directory. Alternatively, you can look in the cygwin and > cygwin-apps email archives for discussions about this. I believe there > was a patch offered to do this, but I'm not sure of its status. You > could also check the source in CVS for the current state of the > available options.
The latest setup.exe snapshots contain such an option (at least since 2.602, perhaps earlier): '-P <comma-separated list of packages to install>'. -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- 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/
