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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: caj AT cs DOT york DOT ac DOT uk cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How does setup.exe cleanup? In-Reply-To: <1509.195.137.95.70.1063905798.squirrel@pisa.cs.york.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <1509 DOT 195 DOT 137 DOT 95 DOT 70 DOT 1063905798 DOT squirrel AT pisa DOT cs DOT york DOT ac DOT uk> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 caj AT cs DOT york DOT ac DOT uk wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering, does setup.exe perform any cleaning up of old > downloaded packages from the local package cache, and if so how? It doesn't. Search the list archives for "clean_setup.pl". > Also, can I assume that any package file that is on a server will never be > changed, or are sometimes packages updated without changing the name? > (even if it is only for a very short period of time) > > Thank you, > Chris They shouldn't be. If they are, it's a bug. This does occasionally happen, unfortunately, but screws up pretty much everyone's setup procedure, so is quickly caught and rectified. The one time packages keep the name across updates is when packages are still in the process of being approved (on the cygwin-apps list). However, this shouldn't be of any concern to the general Cygwin community. Hope this helps, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/