On 20/03/2022 18:20, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
Hi,
I *suspect* this is a bug, but it might just be this isn't supposed to
work: there doesn't seem to be a way to download a source package for an
already-installed Cygwin package when using setup from the command line.
If I run, for example:
/bin/setup-x86_64.exe -d -l 'C:\Users\Adam\Downloads' -s
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/ -IP
bash-completion -R 'C:\cygwin64'
I'd expected this to select and automatically install the source package
for bash-completion. In fact, "bash-completion" does show up in the
list of pending packages, but the "Src?" column is unchecked and greyed
out; I can't even select it manually in the GUI selection tool.
Unsurprisingly, when I continue through the installer, the source
package doesn't get installed. I see similar behaviour if -M or -q are
also added to the argument list.
Everything works as expected if I don't specify a package on the command
line, and just select the source package from the GUI manually. And
while selecting a package that isn't currently installed seems to hit
the same bug I've previously described with not showing up in the
"Pending" list[0], it does successfully install both the requested
package and the source package.
I've attached the setup.log and setup.log.full files, in case they're
useful for working out what's going wrong.
Yeah, this is a bug.
The design of '--include-source' is a bit weird, being "also install
source for everything we are installing" not "also install source of
named packages" (so '-IP foo' does nothing if foo is already installed)
(see [1])
As usual, PTC :)
[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-March/244099.html
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