2016-03-15 18:07 GMT+01:00 Erik Soderquist <eriksoderqu...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Gerrit Haase wrote: >> How can I see all packages in Base category, I am in offline mode, and >> it shows me only all the packages which are present in my package >> folder. > > I was of the understanding that the setup program used the setup.xz or > setup.bz2 file as the reference list of what is available rather than > the content of the mirror, so unless you created your own setup.bz2 > rather than using the one from mirror you created your local repo > from, it should have listed everything, and flagged errors only at > install time after selections were made about missing packages. > > Someone please correct me if I'm inaccurate here.
As far as I can see, it uses setup.ini to resolve dependencies and to fill in text for information, however, packages you don't have in the repository are not listed. All packages which I don't have downloaded are not displayed in setup.exe Regards, Gerrit -- 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
