[GRASS-user] CYGWIN

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
...
>> it looks ok besides the fact that it
>> wants a "setup.ini.sig" file for the GRASS installation.
>> How to generate that?
>
> Recent versions of Cygwin's setup.exe verify that setup.ini has been
> signed by the Cygwin maintainers.
>
> You can run setup.exe with the -X switch to disable signature
> verification.

That's a hard limit for the majority of the Windows users who
want nothing else than click...

> You can sign setup.ini with your own GPG private key, but you then
> have to distribute the corresponding public key to users, and
> setup.exe must still be run with the -U switch (allow untrusted keys).
>
> More details:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-08/msg00001.html

Thanks for the background.
At this point I only see the possibility to split the previously
convenient one-pass installation into a two-pass installation:

1. install cygwin
2. start cmd.exe and run setup.exe with -X (needs full path I guess?)

Any better solution possible? Perhaps a grassinstall.bat which
would call setup.exe -X with the URL to setup.ini of GRASS?

Markus