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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:58:59 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: CygUtils updates: usr-local, RemoveObsoletePackages
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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 is about half the size of the old.  It includes:

autoconf-2.13    automake-1.4
bzip2-0.9.5d     freetype-1.3
gettext-0.10.35  ncurses-5.0
readline-4.0     rxvt-2.6.2
tar-1.12+bzip2   unzip-5.41
vim-5.6          xpm-3.4k
zip-2.3
/usr/local/info/dir 
/usr/local/man/whatis 

These packages are identical to the ones in the older usr-local package;
no need to install this one if you already have the old one (see below
for a method to clean up obsolete stuff)

The following were removed:

cvs-1.10         gdbm-1.8.0 
inetutils-1.3.2  jbig-1.0 
jpeg-6b          libcrypt 
libpng-1.0.6     login 
tiff-v3.5.2      zlib-1.1.3 
/usr/local/etc/inetd.conf 

Now, what if you've already installed one of the older usr-local
tarballs, and you'd like to uninstall those parts that have become
obsolete?  Well, Vladimir Ivanovic asked the same question, and created
the answer: a very flexible set of shell scripts to help remove
packages, called "RemoveObsoletePackages". You can find it here:

http://cygutils.netpedia.net/V1.1/usr-local/Obsolete.html

Note: this is totally unrelated to DJ's ongoing work on setup.exe. 
RemoveObsoletePackages is a very flexible tool, but is no substitute for
a working 'uninstall' feature in setup.exe.  Please pitch in and help
DJ.

--Chuck Wilson

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