Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/16/06:23:49
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:23:00PM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote:
> On 1/16/06, Chris Taylor <chris AT equate DOT dyndns DOT org> wrote:
> > Adrian Maier wrote:
> > > On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org> wrote:
> > >
> > >>I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*". Run setup
> > >>--help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its
> > >>command line options into setup.log.full. Play with running it using
> > >>them on a previously prepared local download directory, with
> > >>non-default packages included either by changing setup.ini to add
> > >>"Base" to their category or adding a dummy mirror directory with a
> > >>setup.ini having a dummy package that has category Base and requires
> > >>the other packages you want.
> > >
> > >
> > > I see: this functionality is in development and therefore is well hidden
> > > for the moment. It's a shame that it's not clearly documented .
> > >
> > >
> > > setup --help displays nothing for me
> > > I suspect this is a cmd.exe or win2000 - related problem ,
> > > because i have seen the same happening with other programs as well
> > > (namely qemu).
> > >
> > >
> > > Adrian Maier
> > >
> >
> > Please re-read what Yitzchak said - it outputs the list of options into
> > setup.log.full
> >
> > Just for emphasis, I'll say that again: *setup.log.full*
> > Open that for the options.
>
> Uh, you are right. Sorry guys, I haven't read the entire phrase written by
> Yitzchak ... my fault.
> It looks like I am too used to the idea of programs writing their messages
> to stdin/stdout .
It certainly qualifies as "quaint" behavior.
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