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Re: setup-1.7 with -D and -L options
Dave Korn wrote:
Basically a WDDTT situation, but you're right, we should forbid it rather
than allow what is effectively "undefined behaviour". Care to file a
bugzilla?
Sure, but I'd also like to be able to make sure that there's not another
issue lurking in there :-)
If I do not specify either -D or -L, then I would expect that setup
would download the packages from a mirror into the local directory
and then do the install.
Infortunately, this is not the case when you add packages to an existing
cygwin install.
If I run the following command line:
setup -q -n -s http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cygwin/
-l c:\cygwin\SetupTest\1.7 -R c:\cygwinTest -P autoconf,gcc-core,make
Then the required packages and dependencies get downloaded to a local
directory, but the install does not happen.
I have to run setup.exe again and specify the -L option....
setup -q -n -L -s http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cygwin/
-l c:\cygwin\SetupTest\1.7 -R c:\cygwinTest -P autoconf,gcc-core,make
Ralph