> My Google-fu seems to be weak this morning. > > Does the -P option to the installer support reading packages to be installed > from a file instead of directly from the command line argument? If so, what's > the syntax (I tried -P@filename). Remember this has to run in a Windows cmd > shell, so solutions like > > setup-x86.exe -P$(paste -d, -s filename) > > are not allowed :-)
This may not be exactly what you want, but my standard solution for years now has been to maintain a cmd script like this: setup-x86.exe ^ --quiet-mode ^ --packages ^ aria2,^ atool,^ autoconf,^ automake,^ autossh,^ and so on. The caret (^) character at the end of every line is the line continuation character in cmd scripts. The list of package names is comma-delimited, which is what the --packages option expects, although that's not documented. -- 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
