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[Unattended] Adding ADDLOCAL="PERL_FEATURE" to perl.bat to save time
Gerhard Hofmann
2011-01-21 08:42:44 UTC
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Hi all,

I found out that changing the line
start /wait msiexec /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\perl.txt /i
%perl_msi% PERL_PATH=Yes PERL_EXT=Yes TARGETDIR="%ProgramFiles%"

in perl.bat

into
start /wait msiexec /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\perl.txt /i
%perl_msi% PERL_PATH=Yes PERL_EXT=Yes TARGETDIR="%ProgramFiles%"
ADDLOCAL="PERL_FEATURE"

saves a little bit time when installing the Perl runtime. It reduces
the Perl installation to the core components.

My main usage is doing application-only installs and the long install
time of Perl is a little bit annoying.

What do you think? Can I change this in the SVN?

Regards
Gerhard
Juanjo Pablos
2011-01-21 09:06:40 UTC
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Post by Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all,
I found out that changing the line
start /wait msiexec /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\perl.txt /i
%perl_msi% PERL_PATH=Yes PERL_EXT=Yes TARGETDIR="%ProgramFiles%"
in perl.bat
into
start /wait msiexec /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\perl.txt /i
%perl_msi% PERL_PATH=Yes PERL_EXT=Yes TARGETDIR="%ProgramFiles%"
ADDLOCAL="PERL_FEATURE"
saves a little bit time when installing the Perl runtime. It reduces
the Perl installation to the core components.
My main usage is doing application-only installs and the long install
time of Perl is a little bit annoying.
What do you think? Can I change this in the SVN?
sure, go ahead.
Gerhard Hofmann
2011-01-21 12:37:45 UTC
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Not sure what affect this will have on us,
We use the perl that is installed to run scripts on the machines and
students us it in lessons.
I will do some testing next week and see if we have to do a
re-installation of perl after the machine
has been unattended
Thanks
B. Royles
I suppose that at least the HTML documentation will be missing.

Regards
Gerhard
Brett Royles
2011-01-21 09:35:45 UTC
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 08:42, Gerhard Hofmann
Post by Gerhard Hofmann
Hi all,
I found out that changing the line
start /wait msiexec /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\perl.txt /i
%perl_msi% PERL_PATH=Yes PERL_EXT=Yes TARGETDIR="%ProgramFiles%"
in perl.bat
into
start /wait msiexec /qb /l* %SystemDrive%\netinst\logs\perl.txt /i
%perl_msi% PERL_PATH=Yes PERL_EXT=Yes TARGETDIR="%ProgramFiles%"
ADDLOCAL="PERL_FEATURE"
saves a little bit time when installing the Perl runtime. It reduces
the Perl installation to the core components.
My main usage is doing application-only installs and the long install
time of Perl is a little bit annoying.
What do you think? Can I change this in the SVN?
Not sure what affect this will have on us,
We use the perl that is installed to run scripts on the machines and
students us it in lessons.

I will do some testing next week and see if we have to do a
re-installation of perl after the machine
has been unattended

Thanks

B. Royles

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