Thrall, Bryan wrote:
Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote on Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:24 PM:
Hi,
I wrote a patch for setup.exe so that it can take a list of packages
to be installed via the -P option, like this:
setup.exe -P openssh,cvs,subversion
This would bring in the 3 modules and all their dependencies (of the
curr version.) The main use case for this is to perform unattended
installation from CLI.
I tried to make the coding style match with that of choose.cc, even
though the coding style of setup.exe as a whole seems to be different
from choose.cc. This is the first time I write a patch for Cygwin, so
my apologies if I'm missing some requirements.
It seems this would be a popular feature, with several patches submitted
(including one from me):
Ah, OK, I didn't realized that I was duplicating an effort. As long as
any one of them gets integrated, I'm happy.
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-03/msg00070.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-08/msg00054.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-04/msg00133.html
But it never makes it into the source. It's a little frustrating.
(BTW, thanks for the patch, Kohsuke! Your effort is appreciated)
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/
