Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <00cd01c1e61e$f936f3a0$2000a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: "Max Bowsher" , References: <001a01c1e50a$3aa01d50$770110ac AT caeschmitt DOT de> <123480150 DOT 20020416102617 AT syntrex DOT com> <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20020416110745 DOT 0575fe10 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> <003101c1e58a$a4595510$5400a8c0 AT wdg DOT uk DOT ibm DOT com> Subject: Re: An deeper and not before asked question about setup.exe Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:18:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 From: "Max Bowsher" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 14:06 Subject: Re: An deeper and not before asked question about setup.exe > I need to maintain my local package directory to remove old versions. Having the > packages scattered between mirror directories is unhelpful. Therefore, I use a > modified version of the clean_setup.pl that was posted here a while ago. I do > not understand, and could not find in the archives, a reason for using these > directories at all. If there is a reason, then sorry for the list noise, if not, > I would suggest the folder layout be reconsidered. There's a newer version of clean_setup.pl at http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ that deals with the new directory structure. It will also, optionally, flatten it for you. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/