Possible Cygwin setup regression with --prune-install

szgyg szgyg@ludens.elte.hu
Thu Aug 29 15:34:00 GMT 2019


On 2019-08-29, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> I have a use-case for Cygwin setup, which I admit will seem strange,
> whereby I want it to do an "Install" with no packages selected at all.
> ie., just setup a "skeleton" of a Cygwin install. I value it, because
> based my own experience with the Cygwin setup code, it seems to
> "bootstrap" the Cygwin root directory, using only the Win32api, without
> a reliance of a Cygwin DLL at the early stage.

Install from local directory with an empty setup.ini.

s


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