X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT 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:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=NQ31Jj0ULuAxRskAKxPR6Ooxk6vyQPqnZzUeBBvY/5C ALpxES7EPL5kyomX28eR2mh4Y8C9p0iq37jxt0srdLE88asaStpWi3mdJhB4N7jV R9sKE1RhwrydPSrt5E8Oad0urDz63XYskevEfp/USaUig8e/sB9JhOhHgPhBGu0Y = 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:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=xubWTQL+Lg3DDExeDMowXt3Vuss=; b=sBm5VLrq1jxIk8CZw UXkElfrEJwPjIJGXQDOG/SCyKaU5AUFkO0cCjIoXwBPPiEidA+yozJPsrJDyThZU S5hUwR6wr+vQIUuPbxM5id5fPH+H27ziXzIJ7xhyDfinTsp6+MBZR59bUkD5Lruo CMfcD6HgoZCfsH2ZExRZr32vsQ= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: bureau93.ns.utoronto.ca Message-ID: <52546071.9030008@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:43:45 -0400 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: baffling cygwin setup.exe behavior References: <20131008185241 DOT GA21581 AT plunk DOT org> In-Reply-To: <20131008185241.GA21581@plunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 08/10/2013 2:52 PM, Don Hatch wrote: > I've always been baffled by cygwin setup's behavior. > I wish I understood it and could control it. > > Here is a typical example where I want to do something > very simple and I have no idea how to get the setup program > to do it. Help! > > My goal: upgrade rcs to the "currently considered most stable" > version, without changing anything else on the system. > > Here is what I tried, in excruciating detail. Something tells me this isn't easily done. ... just be glad that neither RCS nor any of the unwanted upgrades had dependencies. They don't get unflagged when you go to "keep" and there's no option to only download the deps for some packages... Ryan -- 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