Hi All, Is there a way to have the Cygwin setup utility pick a valid mirror automatically from the list it downloads if the setup is run with the following options:
setup-x86_64.exe --quiet-mode --root "C:\dir" --local-package-dir "C:\dir\cygTemp" --packages "apache2" If I run the setup utility with the parameters above, the user is prompted to select a mirror. This would be fine in itself if after doing so the setup utility continued to operate in the quiet mode and downloaded the selected packages (including dependencies for them) automatically. Instead, what happens is that the user selects a mirror, and then the dialog is shown to confirm the packages even though the --quiet-mode parameter was passed in. So basically, the way it works right now is not very consistent. It should either prompt a user to pick a mirror and then install packages quietly without a confirmation dialog showing the packages that are going to be installed, or a mirror should be automatically picked (select the first one from the list the setup utility downloads), and the setup should then continue quietly. I'm trying to automate this as best as possible, and the only way to do so right now is to specify the mirror the setup utility uses by using something similar to: setup-x86_64.exe --site "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/"; --quiet-mode --root "C:\dir" --local-package-dir "C:\dir\cygTemp" --packages "apache2" The problem with this is that it appears that mirror won't always work with each version of Windows (at least I think that's the case based on some strange behavior I'm seeing). Is there a way to have the setup automatically pick a site from the list of mirrors it downloads to use? ~ Thanks OwN -- 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
