Hello Jon, Cygwinstas, I am attempting to operate setup.exe by commandline arguments and what I'd like to have happen, doesn't. In advance, sorry to bore readers if this is an often-discussed issue or whatever. The point I want to make is that `--packages' does not seem to work as how it's documented.
First I tried building this pipeline (I am not a shell genius, but I get by ...anyway, improvement suggestions welcome): cygcheck -e 'perl-pod-*' | sed -ne 's/\s:.\+//p' | xargs | sed -ne 's/ /,/gp' | tee Documents/script-data/CygwinPodDists.lst Tmpfile Documents/script-data/CygwinPodDists.lst now contains: perl-Pod-Coverage,perl-Pod-Coverage-TrustPod,perl-Pod-Escapes,perl-Pod-Eventual,perl-Pod-LaTeX,perl-Pod-Markdown,perl-Pod-Parser,perl-Pod-Perldoc,perl-Pod-Plainer ...which ought to be valid arguments for --packages However, what I intended to have happen does not. Even when I simplify it to offer only a single package name it does not do the right thing: $ "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/setup-x86_64.exe" -q --download --root C:\ix\cygwin --local-package-dir "C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir" --site https://cygwin.mirror.constant.com --include-source --packages "perl-Pod-Eventual" What DOES it do? It downloads all (AFAICT) of base cygwin!: $ find cygDL.dir/ -type f cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/base-cygwin/base-cygwin-3.8-2-src.tar.xz cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/base-cygwin/base-cygwin-3.8-2.tar.xz cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/base-files/base-files-4.3-3-src.tar.zst cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/base-files/base-files-4.3-3.tar.zst ... etc etc ... Is setup in fact trying to fulfill all the dependency prerequisits for "perl-Pod-Eventual"?!? As a write this, that just occured to me. Sure enough: $ find cygDL.dir/ -type f -name '*Pod*' cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Eventual/perl-Pod-Eventual-0.094003-2-src.tar.zst cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Eventual/perl-Pod-Eventual-0.094003-2.tar.zst Well. I won't write "ok, nevermind" since in the case of multiple comma-delimited package names it appeared that setup did nothing at all. And couldn't setup print SOMETHING to the console to mark the operation of fetching each package, so that the user has some idea of what it's doing? That would be really sweet. Ciao, Soren -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
