Whilst on the subject...if any changes were to be made to setup.exe. remembering the user specified package directory would be good also between updates........ C
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Buckley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:35 AM Subject: Re: offering a patch- was [Setup feature query/suggestion!] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Buckley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Rest of the list- > > > > Is this something that would be appropriate for > > setup.exe to do, or should it be a separate package? > > Thats really up to whoever puts the effort in. > > > Should it be a gui, or a command line thing? > > Why force a choice? do both. > > > I'm sure > > I could write a bash script or makefile to do this. > > Are there those on the list who would help me out by > > providing suggestions on the logic that I should use? > > > > I can envision a command like- > > > > apt-get clean /cygdrive/c/cygwin > > > > And the script would look in /cygdrive/c/cygwin > > for a "latest" and "contrib" directory, and then > > go through each package and rm the old ones. But > > rather than compare modification times or version > > numbers in the filenames, is there a sure way to > > make sure we are only removing the packages that are > > older than what is installed- maybe parsing through > > cygcheck output? > > If I can offer a couple of observations: > 1) There is currently no persistent storage of the install archive > directory. A patch to cygwin to make /var/cache/setup (for example) a > symlink to the location the package cache is in would achieve this in a > simple fashion. > 2) The logic to parse /etc/setup.db is already present in setup.exe. So > it would be easier IMO to build a couple of options - say > "remove all files not listed in the current setup.ini" and > "remove all files that have a more recent version installed" - via > setup.exe than > to reinvent that logic (and keep it updated as setup.exe changes). > > Rob > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
