At 9/21/2021 at 12:28, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Jason Pyeron's
keyboard and said:
If the last execution of the setup used download only and the setup
is used with -q and without either -D or -L it still defaults to -D
Adding -Y does not change the behavior either.
Workaround was to launch setup, advance to "select download source",
select install, advance to next screen, abort, re-run silent install.
From setup --help:
-D --download Download packages from internet only
-L --local-install Install packages from local directory only
-Y --prune-install Prune the installation to only the requested
packages
I noticed this a while back, too, with .908. I thought I mentioned
it but maybe not.
There are explicit switches for download (-D) only or local-install
(-L) but not for "install from the internet". It looks like the
"last-action" setting in /etc/setup/setup.rc controls what is used as
the default for the next run: "Download", "Install" (local install)
and "Download, Install" (internet install).
At a minimum, it seems that the code currently is in contradiction to
the --help output: once you choose -L or -D, that becomes the default
mode for subsequent runs. Until explicitly changed back by running
setup and clicking the appropriate button on the second dialog (or
editing the rc file?).
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