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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup-x86_64.exe v2.889 doesn't select additionally downloaded packages when installing from local directory
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 02:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fecd32f0-91ad-1e2b-5be4-baf05b85277a@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8340451-be30-a288-6c04-34416f0de960@cornell.edu>

On 2018-03-03 19:16, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/3/2018 6:00 PM, Robert Cohen wrote:
>> Summary of problem:
>> When installing Cygwin from a local directory, setup-x86_64.exe version 2.889
>> doesn't
>> list the packages that I additionally selected for download when previously
>> downloading
>> to that directory, and the top line of the GUI under Category view says "No
>> packages found<->Default".
> 
> When you run setup to do the install, you need to use the same "Local Package
> Directory" that you used when you ran it to do the download.  I suspect you're
> instead using the directory containing the packages; this is no longer supported
> as of setup version 2.883.
> 
> From https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-12/msg00169.html:
> 
>   - Remove support for installing from a local directory which doesn't
>     contain a setup.ini file

Does that mean the usual mirror directory above {noarch,x86...}/release/ or the
x86.../ directory which actually contains the setup.ini file?

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-04  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-03 23:00 Robert Cohen
2018-03-03 23:54 ` Brian Inglis
2018-03-04  1:51   ` Robert Cohen
2018-03-04  2:16 ` Ken Brown
2018-03-04  2:32   ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2018-03-04  3:01   ` Robert Cohen
2018-03-04  3:11     ` Ken Brown
2018-03-04  4:01       ` Robert Cohen
2018-03-04  5:02         ` Brian Inglis
2018-03-04  5:26           ` Robert Cohen
2018-03-04 15:22         ` Ken Brown
2018-03-06 23:14 ` Jon Turney
2018-03-07  3:37   ` Robert Cohen
2018-03-07 12:15     ` Jon Turney
2018-03-07 20:09       ` Robert Cohen
     [not found]       ` <b03fcc59d6ed4831b4f7c9a225d14466@merl.com>
2018-03-07 20:18         ` Jon Turney
2018-03-22 21:56           ` Ken Brown
2018-03-23 16:54             ` Achim Gratz
2018-03-23 21:10               ` Ken Brown
2018-03-24  1:05                 ` Brian Inglis

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