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Re: setup 2.761 regression: '--quiet-mode' conflicts with '--packages'


On 12/21/2011 12:15 PM, Greg Chicares wrote:
> It appears that some recent change to setup.exe has unintentionally made
> '--quiet-mode' incompatible with '--packages' for command-line installs.
> A similar problem was reported here:
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00244.html
> 
> Using current setup.exe version 2.761, this no longer works (although it
> still works with setup.exe version 2.738 from a few months ago):
> 
>   setup-2.761.exe --quiet-mode --site ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/ --root C:/cygwin-1_7 --packages cvs
> 
> That command takes only about one second, and the local subdirectory for
> downloads contains only setup.ini . According to setup.log.full (which is
> only about 4K), setup.bz2 is downloaded; then it says:

I can confirm this report.  I ran into this bug just yesterday but
hadn't had a chance to dig into it.

The system is a base installation of Windows 7 running under KVM, in
case it matters.  Let me know if there are any other details I can provide.

-Jeremy


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