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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:05:56 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: Re: setup.exe: keep
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Micheal,

In Cygwin's Setup.exe, "keep" means retain the version currently installed. 
You don't really need to do anything to back up your old or new versions, 
since unless you go in an clean house, you will accumulate the tarball 
package files (the *.tar.bz2 files in the per-mirror cache area under the 
directory you specified as the "Local Package Directory" page of the Cygwin 
installer).

What does require manual effort (or Michael Chase's Perl cleanup programs) 
is getting rid of the ever-growing archive of package tarballs. See 
<http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/> for Michael's utilities.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 10:47 2002-10-24, Michael D. Berger & Rosalie A. Clavez wrote:
>In looking at the list of items I can install, I see that one
>of the options is "keep".  What does this mean?
>I would like to execute this sequence:
>1 - download a complete new version;
>2 - backup the complete new version;
>3 - delete my old version;
>4 - install the new version.
>Does the "keep" oprion intefere with this procedure?
>
>Thanks,
>Mike.
>--
>Michael D. Berger


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