This message is a follow up for the sake of completion in this thread. Since I started out casting doubt on whether setup.exe fetches multiple packages (and their dependencies) I'd like to confirm that here, setup.exe is working correctly (it just seemed to hate me on Monday).
I did this in the bash shell: $ "/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 `cygcheck -e 'perl-pod-*' | sed -n -e 's/\s:.\+//p' | xargs | sed -ne 's/ /,/gp' ` and the setup.log logfile records the following downloads: 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Parser/perl-Pod-Parser-1.67-2.tar.zst 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-MIME-Base32/perl-MIME-Base32-1.303-6.tar.zst 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Devel-Symdump/perl-Devel-Symdump-2.18-6.tar.zst 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Plainer/perl-Pod-Plainer-1.04-6.tar.zst 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-LaTeX/perl-Pod-LaTeX-0.61-7.tar.zst 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Coverage/perl-Pod-Coverage-0.23-8.tar.zst 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-URI/perl-URI-5.34-1-noarch.tar.zst 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Perldoc/perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.28-4.tar.zst 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Markdown/perl-Pod-Markdown-3.400-1.tar.zst 2025/12/17 12:12:36 Downloaded C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f% 2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com %2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Coverage-TrustPod/perl-Pod-Coverage-TrustPod-0.100006-2.tar.zst Being able to operate setup.exe semi-automatically (without using the appropriate switch, you have to tap when prompted in the UAC that pops up, so it's not completely automated) ...being able to do so from a friendly bash prompt is nice. Very nice. - 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
