On 21/12/2011 21:02, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > 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.
Thanks for reporting this. It looks like I broke this, when trying to remove the side-effect of setup --quiet-mode --packages of upgrading all currently installed packages to the current version. I've send a patch to fix this to cygwin-apps. -- 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
