Setup: How to automate source download for packages already installed?

[Jon Turney]

On 28/03/2023 17:55, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:55 PM Jon Turney wrote:
> 
> Sorry, based on the previous discussion at [1] this seems to be broken
>> at the moment, due to '-x' being broken.
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-February/252994.html
>>

I think I had messed up my testing here, and -x was actually working in 
isolation, but there was a more complex problem which prevented 
reinstalling a package from the command line working.

>> If you really need this, please try old setup versions from [2].  If you
>> discover which version it got broken in, and/or work out how to fix it,
>> please let us know.
>>
>> [2] https://cygwin.com/setup/
>>
> 
> Completed testing. The last version where:
> 
> --include-source --local-package-dir "path" -x "package[,...]" -P
> "package[,...]"
> 
> ...worked was 2.918. It does not work in 2.919 and later.

Thanks very much, this was a big help in tracking down the change which 
introduced this problem.

This should be resolved in the setup 2.926 RC.