From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2715 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2012 04:26:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 2692 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Oct 2012 04:26:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,TW_CY,TW_QW,TW_YQ X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm26-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (HELO nm26-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com) (98.138.91.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:26:41 +0000 Received: from [98.138.90.52] by nm26.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Oct 2012 04:26:39 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.195] by tm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Oct 2012 04:26:39 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1053.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Oct 2012 04:26:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 93139 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Oct 2012 04:26:39 -0000 Received: from [208.54.38.207] by web125506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:26:39 PDT X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 001.001,SSBhbSBsb29raW5nIGZvciBzb21lIGRvY3VtZW50YXRpb24gLSBodG1sLCBtYW4gcGFnZSwgZG9jIGZpbGUsIHdoYXRldmVyDQp0aGF0IGRlc2NyaWJlcyBzZXR1cC5leGUuICBJJ3ZlIHNwZW50IGF0IGxlYXN0IGEgY291cGxlIGhvdXJzIGxvb2tpbmcgYXQNCnRoZSBVc2VyIEd1aWRlLCB0aGUgRkFRLCB0aGUgYXJjaGl2ZWQgbWFpbGluZyBsaXN0IChwZXJoYXBzIEkgZW50ZXJlZCB0aGUNCndyb25nIHNlYXJjaCB0ZXJtcyksIHRoZSAid2ViIiwgYW5kIGZvdW5kIG5vdGhpbmcgKG90aGVyIHRoYW4gb3RoZXIBMAEBAQE- Message-ID: <1350361599.89569.YahooMailClassic@web125506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:26:00 -0000 From: Pit Bull Subject: Where is detailed setup.exe usage documentation? (old question, never answered) To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: qa00@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00202.txt.bz2 I am looking for some documentation - html, man page, doc file, whatever that describes setup.exe. I've spent at least a couple hours looking at the User Guide, the FAQ, the archived mailing list (perhaps I entered the wrong search terms), the "web", and found nothing (other than other posts on the cyqwin mailing lists asking where setup.exe documentation can be found with no replies - from 2002 and 2003.) In particular, I'm looking for documentation on the Bin? and Src? columns and how they relate to Keep, Skip, and for source. The reason I am looking is that when I do an Install in a category, for example X11, first I Skip large file downloads since they seem to cause a download failed and try again message which never works. So I download and install smaller files/packages first. Then I go back and selectively download/install the remaining packages by cycling through them. (I "finish" setup.exe every time and reinvoke it before selecting the next set of packages.) As I go through packages, setup.exe changes their status to Keep. I set the value at the category level to Install and select the next set of packages, changing Skip to a level number (or level numbers to Skip to be downloaded later.) Then I click Next to do the actual download and install. The goal is to have the status of all packages be Keep. What I find is for certain packages (which all appear to be src) that status never becomes Keep. Since I had problems with downloads failing, I made an assumption (initially) the downloads of these packages failed and kept retrying to download them. After some investigation it APPEARS the src packages are actually downloaded (I find them under /usr/src with suffixes of .bz2 - if I remember correctly.) So the specific questions I have (which I would have liked to have seen answered in a documentation file of some sort) are: Why isn't the status changed to Keep for downloaded src packages (or at least for some since I have not verified this is common across all source files/packages)? What does an X mean in the Src? column box? Is this supposed to mean it has been downloaded even though the status does not say Keep? What does n/a mean in the Bin? and Src? column? Is there any documentation that describes setup.exe in more detail in an organized manner? -- 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