Hi, I'm sure this is a known issue. And it is minor, but I thought it might be good to put it on record, in hope someone has a good idea for how to solve it (in UI).
Cygwin setup.exe allows for install to multiple Cygwin, parallel root directories. If you wish to upgrade some packages for one Cygwin root, and it was not the last involved in a installation, you will see a discrepancy when using the "Download Without Installing" option. The install state and version numbers of packages listed will be based on the last root, and not the intended target. You can work around this by running setup,exe on command-line/Run and specifying -R <target_root_path>. However, there is no way in the UI to do this. My understanding is that this is a bit of a legacy of how Cygwin used to work. Where Cygwin itself had no facilities for parallel. In the (relatively) recent history, Corinna has added to the DLL the ability to read and maintain a hash map for parallel root directories. So perhaps the UI design didn't really catch up with this. -- Regards, Shaddy
