Why do I get error miktexsetup_standalone: Not a package repository.?

[Phyioa]

Hello,

I am on Windows 10 20H2 (OS Build 19042.1889) using cmd.exe as commandline.

I got the MiKTeX Setup Utility from https://miktex.org/download.

I used the following command to create a local package repository:

miktexsetup_standalone.exe --verbose --local-package-repository=d:\git\repositories\MiKTeX\packages\essential --package-set=essential download

When I try to install a portable instance of MiKTeX essential now using command

miktexsetup_standalone.exe --verbose --local-package-repository=d:\git\repositories\MiKTeX\packages\essential --portable=d:\git\repositories\MiKTeX\essential --print-info-only install

I get the following error

this is MiKTeX Setup Service 5.3 (MiKTeX 22.8.28)
miktexsetup_standalone: Not a package repository.
miktexsetup_standalone: Data: repository="d:\git\repositories\MiKTeX\packages\essential"

I already tried to run cmd.exe as administrator. The *.log-file inside d:\git\repositories\MiKTeX\packages\essential only contains three blank lines.

During my Google research I stumbled upon https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/643631 and https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/462216. Unfortunately, adding https://mirror.koddos.net/CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb2-2.9.tar.lzma to d:\git\repositories\MiKTeX\packages\essential does not change anything for me.

The same issue also occurs for the package sets basic and complete.

I also read https://miktex.org/howto/local-repository and https://docs.miktex.org/manual/miktexsetup.html. I don't see a mistake in my commands.

Can someone please help me resolve this issue?

[Phyioa]

This discussion can be deleted. I made a dumb path error I only discovered just now. Sorry, for an inconveniences.

For anyone interested:
I changed the path of the local package repository after I downloaded it and missed to correct my prepared install command. Thus, the issued error was absolutely correct, the specified package repository was no longer at the path I specified with the install command. I just had to correct the value of parameter --local-package-repository.