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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin command line download issue
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8dc7f4ba-264c-1fef-9b2b-af1f34df126b@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR06MB581692726B42ADDB940DAE04BF6B0@BYAPR06MB5816.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>

On 10/23/2019 11:33 AM, Jim Rather wrote:
> My script is not trying to "install" cygwin. I am trying to download packages so 
> that I can install them on systems without internet connectivity.

You're misunderstanding the meaning of the "download" option.  It tells setup to 
download packages for later install.  It doesn't simply download all packages 
that you've specified on the command line.  In particular, it won't download 
packages that it thinks don't need to be installed.

I suggested using the --root option in order to trick setup into thinking that 
you're doing a new install.

Ken

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-23 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-21 17:12 Jim Rather
2019-10-22 18:52 ` Ken Brown
2019-10-22 19:42   ` Jim Rather
2019-10-23  0:33     ` Ken Brown
2019-10-23 12:34       ` Ken Brown
2019-10-23 15:33         ` Jim Rather
2019-10-23 16:49           ` Ken Brown [this message]
2019-10-23 17:13             ` Jim Rather
2019-10-23 18:12           ` Achim Gratz

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