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

[Bill Stewart]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:32 AM Jon Turney wrote:

> 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"'

This does what I need. Thank you!

> An option which explicitly just installs the source for a specified
> package might be useful.

Agreed. Perhaps this could get added to a new iteration of the setup
tool. But combining -I, -x, and -P are a useful workaround.

Thanks!

Bill

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