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 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001204130816.020feef0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:09:10 -0500 To: Patrick Doyle , cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: CygUtils updates: usr-local, RemoveObsoletePackages In-Reply-To: <3A2BD571.961609B9@delcomsys.com> References: <3A2ADFD2.ACC3449C@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:33 PM 12/4/2000, Patrick Doyle wrote: >"Charles S. Wilson" wrote: > > > > A lot of packages that were originally included in my usr-local package > > at cygutils have been absorbed into the official cygwin net release. In > > most cases, the versions distributed from sources.redhat.com are newer > > and better, so the ones from cygutils are obsolete. I've created a new > > usr-local package that does not include those obsolete packages -- the > > new one (usr-local-4) is about one fourth the size of the old one > > (usr-local-3) which was in turn half the size of the preceding one. > > (I'm slowly succeeding in my goal to make cygutils obsolete...) The new > > usr-local package includes: > > > > automake-1.4 freetype-1.3 > > ncftp-3.0.1 rxvt-2.6.2 > > unzip-5.41 wget-1.5.3 > > zip-2.3 > >Please forgive a rather silly question, but, from where may I download >usr-local-4? It doesn't show up in the list of setup packages. From >your text, I expect that there is a "cygutils" site somewhere, but I'm >not sure where to begin to look. > >--wpd Try the "Related Sites" link on the Cygwin home page (www.cygwin.com). There's a pointer there to http://cygutils.netpedia.net/. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com