Re: setup.exe: feature request with patch

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Dr. F. Lee wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I deploy cygwin using unattended (http://unattended.sf.net/) and wpkg
> (http://www.wpkg.org/). It's useful for me to be able to specify additional
> packages to be installed on the command line. The attached file is a patch to
> provide this: call "setup -p package1,package2,package3,...,packageN" to have
> packages1-N artificially included in the 'Base' part of the distribution and
> hence automatically included.
>
> No doubt there are many better ways of doing this (I'm not a C++ programmer
> and had to go with 'what I could do' rather than 'the best way') but perhaps
> this will be useful.

Frank,

First off, thanks for the patch -- it's always nice seeing someone
actually try to solve the problem himself, whatever the eventual outcome.
However, patches to setup should generally be sent to cygwin-apps (you'd
have to subscribe).  FWIW, I've looked at the patch, and it seems to be
doing what it promises to do (with two minor nits: the global
packages_option seems superfluous, since you don't need to use it outside
of package_meta.cc, and there is probably no reason to make a distinction
on whether something was added via the command line or the user's
selection)...  Further discussion of this should happen on cygwin-apps.

But, more importantly, you don't have to do *any* C++ programming at all
to achieve what you want.  Simply set up a local package server with one
empty package, which is in Base and "requires:" all the packages you need
installed.  But I agree that a command-line approach might be more
comfortable in some cases.
HTH,
	Igor
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