X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:cc:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=XmDn2xalKOSdFDCj j/kP/jzm00DSqHX6huyNHpXrgv9+iZlPKdw9CHuJKMQP4Bbx1z3V5XcpPqmlA+6m B6comQjzgYhdXoH3TtgEPhSau4/MojwC8AGlIK1Y7xh5u5s4fvhAeLJjhzoJrvDM pC7YakwtbhaQ0cE2XHEgF6cWMMs= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:cc:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=nIMfdlFQnLLoRf+nunuDpl 4+lq8=; b=vOkWClERM9mKbdDt/fROvXpqAW/TCDA+kEt+mYt6yWADpeuXQfqr6Y IutdU5sf/rLGVZ230rXoKFUpROnyLj7enmPcJzwXXxgRI6QaBHYej9+/WuAbnMgA dFl+KeVZgyzUM/r09hAJ7/yf0zXV/nifxibmtSY12OWhzd+/uWOhI= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,KAM_EXEURI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1407, agent, HCc:D*yahoo.com, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: out3-smtp.messagingengine.com X-ME-Sender: Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test To: The Cygwin Mailing List References: <129322595.2045958.1494880943500.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <129322595.2045958.1494880943500@mail.yahoo.com> <8c2edd06-ca14-53f2-b08a-e764638ac1dd@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <381d6838-a3a0-fa21-4563-aa879d7ad887@dronecode.org.uk> <3BE560BC-84EF-4C6D-8131-85A652C7B18E@yahoo.com> From: Jon Turney Cc: Ian Lambert Message-ID: <4f90e249-a700-2986-0ce0-68db5ab94cbf@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 20:38:05 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 16/05/2017 15:06, Jon Turney wrote: > On 16/05/2017 14:45, Ian Lambert wrote: >> On May 16, 2017 6:52:17 AM EDT, Jon Turney <> wrote: >>> On 15/05/2017 22:11, Brian Inglis wrote: >>>> On 2017-05-15 14:42, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 5/15/17, Jon Turney wrote: >>>>> On 15/05/2017 16:29, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >> When I try --user-agent=anything with setup, it quietly does nothing. > > I'm not sure if you missed or ignored that the wget option is referred > to here. > >> It isn't an option, like proxy username and password aren't? > > Correct, it isn't an option. setup --help will confirm this for you. > > I don't know why unrecognized options aren't fatal errors. So, I might have been misled by my low opinion of setup here: > $ ./setup-x86_64 --user-agent=anything > > Error during option processing. [...] Can you give an example of a setup command line containing an invalid option which "quietly does nothing" rather than reporting an error? > Depending on the results of the tests suggested with wget, I may > consider changing or removing the user-agent reported by cygwin setup, > or providing such an option. This snapshot adds a --user-agent option, which allows the user agent string to be specified. https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878-8-gee3cea.x86.exe https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878-8-gee3cea.x86_64.exe -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple