setup-x86_64.exe v2.889 doesn't select additionally downloaded packages when installing from local directory

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun Mar 4 02:16:00 GMT 2018


On 3/3/2018 6:00 PM, Robert Cohen wrote:
> Summary of problem:
> When installing Cygwin from a local directory, setup-x86_64.exe version 2.889 doesn't
> list the packages that I additionally selected for download when previously downloading
> to that directory, and the top line of the GUI under Category view says "No packages found<->Default".

When you run setup to do the install, you need to use the same "Local 
Package Directory" that you used when you ran it to do the download.  I 
suspect you're instead using the directory containing the packages; this 
is no longer supported as of setup version 2.883.

 From https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-12/msg00169.html:

   - Remove support for installing from a local directory which doesn't
     contain a setup.ini file

Ken

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