I've write a script when Cygwin 1.7 is in beta phase, please see this mail on old.nabble.com http://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-setup.exe%3A-Clean-historical-setup-packages-ts26569064.html
Here's the updated version for Cygwin-1.7 and Cygwin-Legacy(1.5): http://old.nabble.com/file/p28443671/cleanOldPackages_UTF8.sh cleanOldPackages_UTF8.sh It simply find setup.ini and setup-legacy.ini in sub-directories (mirror directories) recursively, and strip out the file list from setup.ini/setup-legacy.ini, and then find out local files which are not existed in the file list, then delete it. $ ./cleanOldPackages_UTF8.sh ################################################################## 清理 Cygwin 旧安装包 Clean Old Install Packages of Cygwin by LiuYan<lovetide＠qq.com> 2010-01-25 12:01 ################################################################## Usage 用法: ./cleanOldPackages_UTF8.sh [-d] [-g][-l] [-p] -d Delete file if it is old 删除旧文件 -g, -l Generate old file deletion script file 生成删除旧文件的执行脚本文件 -p Treat files listed in [prev] section of setup.ini as old 将 setup.ini 中 [prev] 部分所列出的文件当作旧文件 Wish it can help you. hzgmaxwell wrote: > > hi community, > > > Every time when I was installing a cygwin, I run the setup twice. > The first time is to download only, then the second is to install from > local directory. > > To doing like this is to keep the installed packages under a specified > directory, then later on I can re-install from there if only I need to > install cygwin again. > > Now the problem is that the installer -- I mean setup.exe keeps those > previously downloaded packages. For example, under gcc\gcc-core, there are > two files as gcc-core-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2 and gcc-core-3.4.4-999.tar.bz2, > actually as we know, gcc-core-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2 is a previously downloaded > version, I want it to be removed when a new version is downloaded. > > I had thought about writing a script to do the job, but I found it's not > good idea, because it's not easy to find out all the old packages, it's > subject to the naming convention. > > I wonder if the installer could provide a feature to remove those old > packages. Thanks for any hint or if there is already this kind of feature. > > > > -- > 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 > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-to-remove-those-previously-downloaded-packges--tp28443377p28443671.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
