To: cygwin@cygwin.com
From: Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.761)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:48:07 +0100
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On 2011-11-21 16:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> A new version of setup.exe, release 2.761, has been uploaded to
> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.
[snip]
>
> - In unattended mode, if packages were selected on command line,
>    install only those, don't also upgrade all installed packages.

Is there some switch to restore the old behavior here? This change 
breaks how I do installs of cygwin and keep it up-to-date. I have a very 
simple script that invokes setup.exe with the following command-line 
parameters:
--site ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/cygwin --root c:\cygwin --quiet-mode 
--no-desktop --local-package-dir c:\temp --packages 
"cppunit,cvs,file,gcc4-g++,gdb,inetutils,libiconv,make,mintty,openssh,gnupg,opengl"

Doing it like this has been nice because setup.exe runs by itself and I 
don't have to remember which extra packages I want. (A next step I want 
to do, but haven't tried yet to accomplish, is to first download the 
packages and use a local package repository so I could do offline 
installations (if I had pre-downloaded the packages).

- Eric


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