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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Wishlist additions for setup.exe
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:18:11 +0200
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> From: Sam Steingold
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:54 PM

> > * chris <***@**.****.**.**> [2004-04-20 16:04:50 +0100]:
> >
> > Personally I would perfer a system where the setup program simply
> > kept a central cache, rather than a seperate cache for each mirror
> 
> Indeed!
> While I can easily think of some reasons to keep per-mirror caches
> (e.g., what if the mirrors are out of sync?) it is certainly bad UI to
> make the user aware of this, even indirectly.
> If you really need per-mirror caches, you can hide them from the user
> and always scan all of them.
> This will always be faster than downloading the same file anew.
> 
> BTW, what's the policy about the older package tarballs?
> Are they ever removed?  (it appears so...)

To get some "help":
 Google for the latest "clean_setup.pl". 
I have the script below for a standard run of it...

note: /install -> place for setup.exe "local package dir"

-- clean_install_dir --
#!/bin/bash

#This is a shell for the clean_setup.pl script

(
        echo -e "\n\n-- ";
        date +"$0 run at %F %H:%M %z";
        echo -e "\n";
        clean_setup.pl -DDir -MFile -keepold -archive OLD-downloads $*
)  \
    \
     | tee -a /install/clean_setup.log
-- eof --


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E

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