From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Setup: How to automate source download for packages already installed?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:20:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=R9LNqZgDW3Yn8TBEfYKGAom8-__Xw-AdjYuthmi=q+AA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV9t=RJDRPfdRS5QdTvdo_HpsUzKtGuzFVXctbyjshCpHkH+Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:18 PM Bill Stewart wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:32 AM Jon Turney wrote:
>
>
>> If a package is listed for both -x and -P, it is reinstalled, so while
>> not ideal, you might be able to achieve something like what you want
>> with 'setup -I -x "package1,package2,package3" -P
>> "package1,package2,package3"'
>>
>> An option which explicitly just installs the source for a specified
>> package might be useful.
>>
>
> It seems that
>
> --local-install -x "package[,...]" -P "package[,...]"
>
> ...no longer works to automate source download for packages already
> installed...
>
> Is there another workaround? (Or did I miss something obvious?)
>
(Correction: I meant to write '--local-package-dir', not '--local-install')
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-27 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-02 18:06 Bill Stewart
2020-03-04 15:16 ` Jon Turney
2020-03-04 16:57 ` Bill Stewart
2023-03-27 20:18 ` Bill Stewart
2023-03-27 20:20 ` Bill Stewart [this message]
2023-03-27 20:55 ` Jon Turney
2023-03-28 16:55 ` Bill Stewart
2023-04-14 15:32 ` Jon Turney
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