From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Setup: How to automate source download for packages already installed?
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=RZpJbj9UjtasKRYr53DGZgxn2YaGU1ObXvyhK--rnEag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <819a2b66-ba52-328c-81c8-66357ea6465d@dronecode.org.uk>
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"'
This does what I need. Thank you!
> An option which explicitly just installs the source for a specified
> package might be useful.
Agreed. Perhaps this could get added to a new iteration of the setup
tool. But combining -I, -x, and -P are a useful workaround.
Thanks!
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-04 15:16 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 [this message]
2023-03-27 20:18 ` Bill Stewart
2023-03-27 20:20 ` Bill Stewart
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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