On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:54:48PM +0000, Jon Turney wrote: > 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 :)
Urgh, fine! I've been long avoiding looking at any of the actual Cygwin DLL or setup code -- pretty much all my code-wrangling experience has been on Linux or other POSIX-y systems -- but I suspect I'm increasingly hitting the point of my desire and interest in fixing things overtaking my wariness of Windows APIs :P -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
