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

[Bill Stewart]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:18 PM Bill Stewart wrote:

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:32 AM Jon Turney wrote:
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>> If a package is listed for both -x and -P, it is reinstalled, so while
>> not ideal, you might be able to achieve something like what you want
>> with 'setup -I -x "package1,package2,package3" -P
>> "package1,package2,package3"'
>>
>> An option which explicitly just installs the source for a specified
>> package might be useful.
>>
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> It seems that
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> --local-install -x "package[,...]" -P "package[,...]"
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> ...no longer works to automate source download for packages already
> installed...
>
> Is there another workaround? (Or did I miss something obvious?)
>

(Correction: I meant to write '--local-package-dir', not '--local-install')