Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:05:23 -0500 Message-Id: <200011200405.XAA27505@envy.delorie.com> X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj@envy.delorie.com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: robert.collins@itdomain.com.au CC: cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <188CAABFF1C6AD4D946FF2170CD8B7AA64B3@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au> (robert.collins@itdomain.com.au) Subject: Re: setup.exe should remove the tar.gz files of old packages References: <188CAABFF1C6AD4D946FF2170CD8B7AA64B3@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au> > I disagree: If I want to back out to a previous version then I would be > really miffed if I had to download it again. However if you were to > remove tarballs from two revisions back I'd have no problem :-] Usually, setup.ini knows about the previous stable release. The tricky parts are the .gz files no longer listed in setup.ini. I suppose we could try to be clever and only remove old versions of *known* packages. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com