Here is a reworked patch series, this time as single patches in separate
mail. For the sake of completeness I'm sending all patches again. They
should all apply seperately if necessary. Some comments below.
[PATCH 1/4] README: document some recent changes in the build environment
I've clarifi
>From a246270621b2b4fbd476aa386fc217ed14f3fe10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Achim Gratz
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:12:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Allow delete and reinstall from CLI, re-implement install from CLI
* choose.cc: Add new CLI option -g/--upgrade-also, considers all
installed packa
On 25/01/2013 22:11, Achim Gratz wrote:
> From a246270621b2b4fbd476aa386fc217ed14f3fe10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Achim Gratz
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:12:41 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Allow delete and reinstall from CLI, re-implement
> install from CLI
> - bool bCommandLineAddedPacka
Jon TURNEY writes:
> It looks to me that this might be removing the code which causes the Base
> category to get installed by default on the first install. Have you tested
> that still happens?
I think there's a single combination of options where this indeed
occurs: a Base package is not install
Revised patches with some small improvements to the way setup.exe handles
mirror URLs.
I'm really not that keen on patches 3 & 4. It changes a lot of stuff around
just to
change the name of a directory from e.g.
'http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f'
to 'http%3a%2f%2fmirror
