On 21/12/2011 23:13, Jon TURNEY wrote: > 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 sent a patch to fix this to cygwin-apps.
I've uploaded a snapshot of setup including this fix at [1], perhaps you could try it out and see if that resolves your problem [1] http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/setup-2.762.exe -- 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
