On 12/21/2011 12:15 PM, Greg Chicares wrote: > It appears that some recent change to setup.exe has unintentionally made > '--quiet-mode' incompatible with '--packages' for command-line installs. > A similar problem was reported here: > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00244.html > > Using current setup.exe version 2.761, this no longer works (although it > still works with setup.exe version 2.738 from a few months ago): > > setup-2.761.exe --quiet-mode --site ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/ > --root C:/cygwin-1_7 --packages cvs > > That command takes only about one second, and the local subdirectory for > downloads contains only setup.ini . According to setup.log.full (which is > only about 4K), setup.bz2 is downloaded; then it says:
I can confirm this report. I ran into this bug just yesterday but hadn't had a chance to dig into it. The system is a base installation of Windows 7 running under KVM, in case it matters. Let me know if there are any other details I can provide. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
