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From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Where is detailed setup.exe usage documentation?  (old question, never answered)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507D70EA.40109@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350361599.89569.YahooMailClassic@web125506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

On 10/16/2012 12:26 AM, Pit Bull wrote:
> I am looking for some documentation - html, man page, doc file, whatever
> that describes setup.exe.

<snip>

> 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)?

Could be a bug.

> 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?

It indicates that you want the source for the selected package.

> What does n/a mean in the Bin? and Src? column?

Not applicable.  The state of these columns is dependent on whether you've 
selected a version of the package to install.

> Is there any documentation that describes setup.exe in more detail in
> an organized manner?

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#internet-setup> is the
most detailed documentation we have for setup.exe right now.

-- 
Larry

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-16 14:36 UTC|newest]

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2012-10-16  4:26 Pit Bull
2012-10-16 14:36 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]

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