Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install? From: Robert Collins To: andrew clarke Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20030214213137.GA63187@ozzmosis.com> References: <20030214182615.GA20996@redhat.com> <20030214213137.GA63187@ozzmosis.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-+MudFau5MlHhy1d+w/ov" Organization: Message-Id: <1045263201.1203.44.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 15 Feb 2003 09:53:21 +1100 --=-+MudFau5MlHhy1d+w/ov Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:31, andrew clarke wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:45:37PM +0000, John M. Adams wrote: >=20 > > How do you get just 1 package via setup.exe? ... > So, to install a single package you will want to mark everything you > already have installed as Keep, and everything else as Skip, then choose > the version of the package you want to install. Setup will re-add any > dependencies, if required. There is an easier way.. click on on the button that starts out as 'Categories' until it shows partial. Then set all those packages to 'keep' if you don't want to upgrade them. Now click on partial to get back to categories, browse for your package, and then click it's version to select the one you want. Bingo. Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-+MudFau5MlHhy1d+w/ov Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+TXNhI5+kQ8LJcoIRAsBFAJ9X9G5J29dyG1kX49joJ3TQIIypXwCgpCkH JgXQ9GmSdGaCC5X//BcyUfw= =Mshn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-+MudFau5MlHhy1d+w/ov--