On 2010-09-16 11:59Z, Fergus wrote: > The best solution to the problem of making a tailored Cygwin installation > > Base + select handful of packages > > but stopping short of Full (typically, well short of Full) seems to be > Igor Pechtchanski's offered at > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00528.html
I've used that technique in the past, with this customized file: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lmi/setup.ini But I haven't tried it since 1.7 was released, because now I find it much easier to specify selected packages on the command line: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg00470.html > I have been able to achieve this > many times in the past by incorporating a single additional paragraph > into setup.ini, located near the top immediately between the lines > > setup-timestamp: xxxxxxxxxx > and > @ ELFIO Then I guess you're modifying Cygwin's setup files instead of providing an additional ".ini' file on a separate server? -- 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
