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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:59:45 +0100
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Subject: Re: Cygwin installer command line package selection
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In fact that's exactly what I had...
Funny that we both used the same package for this test!
(sorry no attachment of the initial email because I don't know how to do it
with Gmail android)

Le jeu. 10 févr. 2022 à 15:52, Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> a écrit :

> Following on from the report at [0], I've been doing a bit of digging
> around a problem I spotted a while ago, and now have a clear bug report.
> I'm not sure if it's related to that report, or if the reporter there
> was experiencing some other unexpected behaviour.
>
> Simple-ish test case:
>
> 1. Get a brand new Windows 11 install.  (I'm using the Microsoft-
>    provided Windows 11 Pro Gen2 image in the Azure marketplace, on a
>    fresh Azure D2as v5 VM, although I really don't think that's
>    significant.)
>
> 2. Log in, open Edge, download setup-x86_64.exe from cygwin.com.
>
> 3. From PowerShell, cd to the download directory, then run
>    `.\setup-86_64.exe -P 2048-cli`.
>
> 4. Click through the screens that appear, leave default options selected
>    where possible, and select https://mirror.kernel.org as the mirror,
>    until you get to the package selector screen.
>
> 5. At the package selector screen, since this is a brand new install,
>    you should be on the Category view, with nothing expanded.  Expand
>    All > Games, and All > Base.  For all the base packages, and the
>    2048-cli package under Games, I'd expected the latest non-test
>    version to be selected in the "New" column, but instead the "New"
>    column is blank for all those packages.  (It shows "Skip", as
>    expected, for all the packages I'm not expecting to be installed.)
>
> 6. Switch to Pending view.  I'd expected to see a list showing all the
>    base packages, plus 2048-cli, as packages pending installation, but
>    instead there's just a note saying "Nothing to install or update."
>
> 7. Click Next.  The "Review and confirm changes" screen that appears has
>    a list of packages to install that looks like what I'd expect based
>    on the command line -- a bunch of things that look like they're part
>    of base Cygwin, plus 2048-cli -- but clearly doesn't match what was
>    displayed on the previous screen.
>
> I'm 90% sure this behaviour changed at some point in the past, and
> previously I'd have had the packages to be installed displayed in the
> package selector screen as well as the review screen.  I think -- much
> less confident here -- that it changed some time around when the
> dependency resolution got updated such that setup suggested a variety of
> dependency resolutions.  I've not actually tried going back and checking
> versions when this behaviour changed, though.
>
> I believe I see this behaviour, or something similar, whenever I try to
> install packages using the `-P` interface to setup.exe, and it has been
> mildly annoying me for a while, but until now I didn't get as far as
> properly characterising the bug or producing a STC.
>
> [0]: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-February/250744.html
>
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