On 22/09/2021 02:50, Richard Beels via Cygwin wrote:
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
So, it seems that the way to specify that is to use both -D and -L.
"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?).
But yeah, the help text here is wrong. I'll look at correcting and
improving it.
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