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. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 21.02.2014, <10:48> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
