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From: Gautam Vallabha <Gautam DOT Vallabha AT mathworks DOT com>
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Subject: Unattended mode not working with setup.exe 2.761
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:06:44 +0000
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Hi,

Since setup 2.761 came out, the "--quiet-mode" option doesn't seem to work. With the previous release, the following command worked correctly (this is on Windows 7 64-bit):

  setup.exe --download  --categories Base  --packages make  --quiet-mode  --site "http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/cygwin/" --root "c:\cygwin" --local-package-dir "c:\ cygwin_packages" --no-shortcuts

However, with the latest release, the same command doesn't work. The new behavior is as follows:

* The command completes with any errors, but the only file under c:\cygwin_packages\http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirrors.hoobly.com%2f is setup.ini. 

* c:\cygwin_packages\setup.log has a  bunch of lines like the following, but nothing of the form "Downloaded C:\ cygwin_packages/http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirrors.hoobly.com%2f/ ...":
   2011/12/10 22:34:36 Found category Base in package alternatives
   2011/12/10 22:34:36 Added manual package alternatives
   2011/12/10 22:34:36 Found category Base in package base-cygwin
   2011/12/10 22:34:36 Added manual package base-cygwin

* If I remove "--quiet-mode" from the command line (so that I have to manually click through the setup.exe dialogs), then everything works as expected.

* Another difference between setup.log with a successful download (i.e., --quiet-mode parameter omitted) and an unsuccessful download is that the successful setup.log has the following line:
  2011/12/10 22:57:43 source: download
The unsuccesful setup.log doesn't have the above line.

I couldn't find mentions of the changed behavior in the doc, FAQ, or in the cygwin newsgroup for the past few weeks. I found a release note by Corinna Vinschen (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-11/msg00343.html), which mentions this new behavior: "In unattended mode, if packages were selected on command line,  install only those, don't also upgrade all installed packages." However, I don't see how this could affect my usage above.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
Gautam


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