2009/6/23 Christopher Faylor: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:13:39PM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote: > >> Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line > >> options, in particular the one for installing packages without > >> invoking the GUI that I think was added last year? > >> > >> I had a look in all the places I could think of, but without success, > >> and invoking setup with -h, -H, -help or --help does nothing. > > > >I guess you are using an older setup-1.7.exe; When I type 'setup-1.7.exe > >-h', I get: > > > >$ setup-1.7.exe -h > >Starting cygwin install, version 2.629 > >Current Directory: E:\My Downloads > > > >Command Line Options: > > -D --download Download from internet > > -L --local-install Install from local directory > > -s --site Download site > > -R --root Root installation directory > > -P --packages Specify packages to install > >[snip] > > > >Older versions of setup just wrote this output to setup.log and > >setup.log.full in the directory where setup was run, but now it writes > >it to stdout, too :) > > Yep. I added this functionality recently. It may not work when dumping > to the console since it relies on a Windows function call which isn't > availabe on older versions of Windows. But this should work: > > setup-1.7 -h | cat > > (I recently got a cygwin crash doing something like this on Windows NT4. > I plan to debug that crash this weekend) > > Also, running it from mintty or with CYGWIN=tty should work as well.
I had actually downloaded the latest setup-1.7.exe, but I must have invoked the wrong one when I tried it. D'oh. The -P option is working nicely, especially when combined with -q for unattended install. Throw 'cygcheck -p' into the mix, and this should keep the apt-getters happy. Thanks to everyone involved! Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
