cygwin setup version 2.909 not installing (silent mode) - bug or user error?
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Fri Oct 1 14:58:00 GMT 2021
On 22/09/2021 02:50, Richard Beels via Cygwin wrote:
>
> At 9/21/2021 at 12:28, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Jason Pyeron's
> keyboard and said:
>> If the last execution of the setup used download only and the setup is
>> used with -q and without either -D or -L it still defaults to -D
>>
>> Adding -Y does not change the behavior either.
>>
>> Workaround was to launch setup, advance to "select download source",
>> select install, advance to next screen, abort, re-run silent install.
>>
>> From setup --help:
>> -D --download Download packages from internet only
>> -L --local-install Install packages from local
>> directory only
>> -Y --prune-install Prune the installation to only the
>> requested
>> packages
>
> I noticed this a while back, too, with .908. I thought I mentioned it
> but maybe not.
>
> There are explicit switches for download (-D) only or local-install (-L)
> but not for "install from the internet". It looks like the
So, it seems that the way to specify that is to use both -D and -L.
> "last-action" setting in /etc/setup/setup.rc controls what is used as
> the default for the next run: "Download", "Install" (local install) and
> "Download, Install" (internet install).
>
> At a minimum, it seems that the code currently is in contradiction to
> the --help output: once you choose -L or -D, that becomes the default
> mode for subsequent runs. Until explicitly changed back by running
> setup and clicking the appropriate button on the second dialog (or
> editing the rc file?).
But yeah, the help text here is wrong. I'll look at correcting and
improving it.
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