Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:56:10 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Couple of scripts to remove duplicate packages Message-ID: <20050120185610.GF9369@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <41EF54F1.7090807@hotpop.com> <41EFB69B.7090104@buddydog.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41EFB69B.7090104@buddydog.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:48:11AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Alex wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>>I have a habit of keeping cygwin packages on my computer and updating >>>them from time to time using setup.exe. This saves me time when I need >>>to install on another computer. >>>This creates a problem of old versions of packages accumulating in my >>>download directory. I used to remove them by hand but that is a time >>>consuming process. Finally I wrote an awk script to help me deal with >>>the problem. And just for kicks I added a shell wrapper :). >>> >>>Attached are the scripts. I hope they could be useful to someone else. >>>I am sure they can be improved but they have been useful to me as is. >> >>That's a nice attempt. However, I can see that you're not aware of >>Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl (which does that and much, much more). >>Google for it. > >It is here if you are interested: > >http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ Should this be a cygwin (or maybe a cygutuils) package? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/