Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/13/22:42:29
Dave Korn wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall
>>Sent: 08 October 2004 06:48
>
>
>>>>I freely confess I'm doing something unusual. Maybe I'm the first
>>>>person on the planet to attempt to automate Cygwin
>>
>>installation via a
>>
>>>>shell script from an already existing and stable copy of Cygwin
>>>>installed elsewhere on the network?
>>
>>Dave:
>>
>>
>>>It's possible. Is there a reason you aren't using setup.exe? It's
>>>automatable and easily customisable and it has the benefit
>>
>>in this situation
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>>>of being a plain non-cygwin win32 exe.
>>
>>I should clarify that I *am* using Cygwin's setup.exe - the
>>scripts just do all the other automation around that:
>
>
> [...ker-snippo!...]
>
>
>>And possibly other things I've forgotten.
>
>
> Ah, ok... well how about this: instead of a monolithic shell script, you
> divide it up into two: one that runs before setup.exe, using the network
> dir's installation, and one that runs after, using the newly-installed local
> cygwin?
>
> Write a .bat file that first calls the network bash to run the pre-setup
> script, then calls setup.exe, then the local bash for the post-install.
>
> As long as the pre-install script exits everything properly, the cygwin
> dll should be unloaded when bash exits back to the .bat file, then setup can
> replace
> /install the local cygwin, and finally you'll start up the local bash with
> the local cygwin dll and do everything after setup.exe on the local system.
Agreed, that's my plan.
luke
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