Re: setup: how to select all src packages too?

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>]

Greetings, Luke Kendall!

>>> It's great that Cygwin has so many packages.  And setup.exe makes it
>>> easy to select the packages you want.
>>> But it seems quite difficult to also select all the corresponding source
>>> packages as well, simply because there are so many packages! In the
>>> worst case, where you want every package, and all the source packages
>>> too, surely you don't have to scroll and click 3,000-odd times in the UI
>>> to select them all?  But I haven't found a way to do it through setup.
>>> Sorry if this is a dumb question.  I have searched, but couldn't find an
>>> answer.
>> This is a known deficiency of a Cygwin setup.
>> However, how many source packages you ACTUALLY, REALLY need to download?

> I imagine others have suggested that the UI for the missing 
> functionality could be as simple as a checkbox to include source package 
> for all packages selected.

> We actually, really needed to download all the source packages, because 
> we need to be able to check the licenses, and the licenses can often 
> only be found by looking in the source packages.

> We worked around the problem by rsync-ing the whole thing, in the end.

> Thanks for confirming that it wasn't a dumb question, Andrey!

Well, since you need _every_ thing, mirroring was, perhaps, the easiest way of
doing it.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 21.02.2014, <10:48>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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