The patch that Reini mentions here seems to have languished. It seems like it could be pretty useful. Is anyone willing to review it?
cgf ----- Forwarded message from Reini Urban ----- Dave Korn schrieb: > Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 June 2008 20:21: >> Long story short, I ended up using a hacked older version of setup.exe >> that accepted a -p parameter and a list of packages. It worked great! >> >> Is there a compelling reason why that patch can't be applied to the >> current setup and released? Are there security or stability issues >> I'm not thinking about? >> >> That being said, I CAN run setup.exe in unattended quiet mode and >> get a BASE cygwin install done, and I'm quite happy with that. But >> I'd really, really like to specify packages on the command line. >> >> Can I help by offering to update the patch to the current setup? > Absolutely, yes, please! If you post it to the cygwin-apps list, with a > ChangeLog entry, I'll see what we can do about getting it applied. You mean the patch from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/16502 ? ----- End forwarded message -----
