From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17729 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2011 04:57:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 17721 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jul 2011 04:57:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm3-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (HELO nm3-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com) (98.138.91.55) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:57:31 +0000 Received: from [98.138.90.55] by nm3.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Jul 2011 04:57:30 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.133] by tm8.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Jul 2011 04:57:30 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp220.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Jul 2011 04:57:30 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@108.20.226.5 with login) by smtp220.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Jul 2011 21:57:30 -0700 PDT Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id D734013C002 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:57:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:11:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.10.3-1 Message-ID: <20110720045717.GA28531@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <4E263CAE.50005@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E263CAE.50005@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-07/txt/msg00043.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:25:50PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >Jon TURNEY wrote: > >> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: >> >> *** xorg-server-1.10.3-1 >> *** xorg-server-dmx-1.10.3-1 > >---- > How can I install 'just' those packages (from the command >line).... > > The GUI has no option to only install 1 package -- >it selects ALL, (100's of my packages want updates, but when I tried I >tried it last, I ended up with a completely non-function cygwin setup >(no bash, nada..., thank goddess I had a backup...) > > So now now, I tried going through and unselecting, but there >were too many and my wrists gave out.....and of course the GUI has >not KB-accelerators like shift-minus to unselect all, that I could find. > > Any easy way to cherry pick packages to install rather than being >forced fed entire updates all at once? > >the cmd line 'setup' claims to allow you to install, one package, but >then it went through the whole gui process and still had all the other >default packages installed!.... If you ran setup.exe and it deleted bash then there is something very seriously wrong with either your system or setup.exe. I know where my money would go if I was betting on which of the above was more likely. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/