X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:46:42 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Folder ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.sunsite.utk.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin remains after install (FAQ alert) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1132608508.5513.11.camel@math.jpl.nasa.gov> <4382BA57.5090107@t-online.de> <4382BCC2.515350F0@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > Christian Franke wrote: > > > > > Somewhat offtopic and probably FAQ: > > > The local package cache fills up with outdated (no longer in setup.ini) > > > versions. > > > Is there any hidden setup.exe functionality or cleanup script available > > > to delete old package files? > > > > There's nothing in setup.exe, but I do remember that someone once posted > > a script that does this. I don't recall the filename but google on the > > mailing list archives ought to work. > > The script you're thinking of is Michael A. Chase's clean_setup.pl. > Unfortunately, Googling for it mostly turns up references to it in the > mailing list archives, and the actual site comes up only at the bottom of > the page. It would be nice if there was a link to this script in the FAQ > somewhere. Gaah, I forgot to include the link to the script: . Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/