From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: jeremy@bopp.net, gchicares@sbcglobal.net, Gautam.Vallabha@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: setup 2.761 regression: '--quiet-mode' conflicts with '--packages'
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF37203.2080007@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EF2680C.8020506@dronecode.org.uk>
On 21/12/2011 23:13, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 21/12/2011 21:02, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>> On 12/21/2011 12:15 PM, Greg Chicares wrote:
>>> It appears that some recent change to setup.exe has unintentionally made
>>> '--quiet-mode' incompatible with '--packages' for command-line installs.
>>> A similar problem was reported here:
>>> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00244.html
>>>
>>> Using current setup.exe version 2.761, this no longer works (although it
>>> still works with setup.exe version 2.738 from a few months ago):
>>>
>>> setup-2.761.exe --quiet-mode --site ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/ --root C:/cygwin-1_7 --packages cvs
>>>
>>> That command takes only about one second, and the local subdirectory for
>>> downloads contains only setup.ini . According to setup.log.full (which is
>>> only about 4K), setup.bz2 is downloaded; then it says:
>>
>> I can confirm this report. I ran into this bug just yesterday but
>> hadn't had a chance to dig into it.
>
> Thanks for reporting this.
>
> It looks like I broke this, when trying to remove the side-effect of setup
> --quiet-mode --packages of upgrading all currently installed packages to the
> current version.
>
> I've sent a patch to fix this to cygwin-apps.
I've uploaded a snapshot of setup including this fix at [1], perhaps you could
try it out and see if that resolves your problem
[1] http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/setup-2.762.exe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-22 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-21 18:15 Greg Chicares
2011-12-21 21:02 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-12-21 23:13 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-12-22 18:08 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2011-12-22 19:58 ` Greg Chicares
2011-12-22 20:00 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-12-22 21:48 ` Christopher Faylor
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