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Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test
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Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 20:38:05 +0100
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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



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