On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:34:05AM -0600, Tom Schutter wrote: >I have seen various scripts that do semi-automated installation and/or >updates of Cygwin, but none seemed to have all of the features that I >wanted. So I wrote yet another batch file which can be found at: > > https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_setup.bat > >Features of this batch file: >* Mostly hands-free, except for stopping of running Cygwin > processes and configuration of newly installed services. >* Stops and starts Cygwin services. >* Lists running Cygwin processes (setup.exe informs you that > they are running, but does not list them). >* Fetches latest setup.exe from cygwin.com. >* Installs standard set of packages. >* Updates all installed packages. >* Runs rebaseall. >* Installs standard services (syslogd, sshd). >* Installs cyglsa. > >Most likely you will want to edit the configuration section at about >line 48 to change the package list, install dir, and mirror site. > >Please feel free to use for whatever nefarious purposes you would like. >Suggestions and improvements are welcome. > >As a bonus feature, I also wrote an uninstall script: > > https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_uninstall.bat > >The uninstall script attempts to do all of the steps listed at: > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
If people like these packages maybe they could become part of the distribution. We get enough requests for something like this so I think it would make sense to have something official. Assuming you're willing to provide support here of course. cgf -- 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
