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Subject:	Re: setup 2.761 regression: '--quiet-mode' conflicts with '--packages'
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On 21/12/2011 21:02, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for reporting this.

It looks like I broke this, when trying to remove the side-effect of setup
--quiet-mode --packages of upgrading all currently installed packages to the
current version.

I've send a patch to fix this to cygwin-apps.

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