Re: WTF & NEW acronyms Was: Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-04 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Hi Lee, > Is anyone maintaining WTF? That would be me, but... > Would anyone object to my changing the nature of WTF, so that it > automatically updates it's database from the OLOCA web page? (in Perl) > Rather than requiring a re-release each time the DB changes. If you would like to take it o

WTF & NEW acronyms Was: Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-04 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Andrew Defaria spake: ... the people at work are a lot more point and clickly if you know what I mean. These get my vote: PACy -- point and clicky OR: GUIPy -- GUI prone Sy -- scripty (gnuish?) OR: CLIO -- Command line-oriented WWNN -- "if you know what I mean" OR "wink, wink, nudge, nudg

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-04 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Dave Korn wrote: > On 03/04/2010 06:51, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >>> A "silent" install might be cool but I can also see that it would be >>> useful to allow to user to browse though some of the optional packages. >>> For example, while maybe not everybody would want gcc and m

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 03/04/2010 06:51, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> A "silent" install might be cool but I can also see that it would be >> useful to allow to user to browse though some of the optional packages. >> For example, while maybe not everybody would want gcc and make, some >> may. Or perh

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-02 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 04/02/2010 10:19 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> It gets even better once you look through the other command line options >> listed with --help because you can automate installation selections to >> the point that the users don't have to do anything more than run your >> batch

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 04/02/2010 10:19 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: If you don't mind fiddling around with the setup.ini file, then the key thing is to edit this file and change the category of the desired packages to "Base". I did look (quickly) into setup.ini to see if there was an obvious thing to do. It was n

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-02 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 4/3/2010 12:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> On 04/02/2010 09:28 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> And yes a .bat file that you double click would probably suffice however >> there is something in the whole setup structure that make certain >> packages install by defa

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/3/2010 12:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 04/02/2010 09:28 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: 'setup.exe' doesn't support the GUI you're supposing. Huh? When I run setup.exe I get a GUI - one we all know and love! So it's the command line option or PTC. ;-) I would think a batch file that one

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 04/02/2010 09:28 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: 'setup.exe' doesn't support the GUI you're supposing. Huh? When I run setup.exe I get a GUI - one we all know and love! So it's the command line option or PTC. ;-) I would think a batch file that one can point and click on would satisfy the "p

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/2/2010 11:11 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 04/02/2010 04:46 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 4/2/2010 6:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I maintain a local repository of Cygwin (IOW I download to a local directory and then install from there). I let others use my repository. I want to make it such th

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 04/02/2010 04:46 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 4/2/2010 6:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I maintain a local repository of Cygwin (IOW I download to a local directory and then install from there). I let others use my repository. I want to make it such that OpenSSH and rxvt are installed by defa

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-02 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 4/2/2010 6:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I maintain a local repository of Cygwin (IOW I download to a local > directory and then install from there). I let others use my repository. > I want to make it such that OpenSSH and rxvt are installed by default > but when they run setup.exe and point i

Making package installation default

2010-04-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I maintain a local repository of Cygwin (IOW I download to a local directory and then install from there). I let others use my repository. I want to make it such that OpenSSH and rxvt are installed by default but when they run setup.exe and point it to my repository OpenSSH and rxvt are set to