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Subject:	Setup not accepting multiple pkgs on the commandline anymore?
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From:	Soren via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Reply-To:	Soren <somian08 AT gmail DOT com>
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Hello Jon, Cygwinstas,
I am attempting to operate setup.exe by commandline arguments and what I'd
like to have happen, doesn't. In advance, sorry to bore readers if this is
an often-discussed issue or whatever. The point I want to make is that
`--packages' does not seem to work as how it's documented.

First I tried building this pipeline (I am not a shell genius, but I get by
...anyway, improvement suggestions welcome):

cygcheck -e 'perl-pod-*' | sed -ne 's/\s:.\+//p' | xargs | sed -ne 's/
/,/gp' |
  tee Documents/script-data/CygwinPodDists.lst

Tmpfile Documents/script-data/CygwinPodDists.lst now contains:

perl-Pod-Coverage,perl-Pod-Coverage-TrustPod,perl-Pod-Escapes,perl-Pod-Eventual,perl-Pod-LaTeX,perl-Pod-Markdown,perl-Pod-Parser,perl-Pod-Perldoc,perl-Pod-Plainer

...which ought to be valid arguments for --packages

However, what I intended to have happen does not. Even when I simplify it
to offer only a single package name it does not do the right thing:

$ "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/setup-x86_64.exe" -q --download --root
C:\ix\cygwin  --local-package-dir "C:/Users/soren/cygDL.dir" --site
https://cygwin.mirror.constant.com --include-source --packages
"perl-Pod-Eventual"

What DOES it do? It downloads all (AFAICT) of base cygwin!:
$ find cygDL.dir/ -type f
cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com
%2f/noarch/release/base-cygwin/base-cygwin-3.8-2-src.tar.xz
cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com
%2f/noarch/release/base-cygwin/base-cygwin-3.8-2.tar.xz
cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com
%2f/noarch/release/base-files/base-files-4.3-3-src.tar.zst
cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com
%2f/noarch/release/base-files/base-files-4.3-3.tar.zst
... etc etc ...

Is setup in fact trying to fulfill all the dependency prerequisits for
"perl-Pod-Eventual"?!? As a write this, that just occured to me. Sure
enough:

$ find cygDL.dir/ -type f -name '*Pod*'
cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com
%2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Eventual/perl-Pod-Eventual-0.094003-2-src.tar.zst
cygDL.dir/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com
%2f/noarch/release/perl-Pod-Eventual/perl-Pod-Eventual-0.094003-2.tar.zst
Well. I won't write "ok, nevermind" since in the case of multiple
comma-delimited package names it appeared that setup did nothing at all.
And couldn't setup print SOMETHING to the console to mark the operation of
fetching each package, so that the user has some idea of what it's doing?
That would be really sweet.

    Ciao,
        Soren

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