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Re: Deleting old versions of packages
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:44:51 -0500
- Subject: Re: Deleting old versions of packages
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 09:32:25PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>> In further consideration in the thinking room, two other ideas presented
>> themselves:
>>
>> 1) Create files with a leading '-' character to flag deletion.
>
>That should be workable and relatively painless on all sides.
>
>> 2) Create a !deleteme directory containing files or directories that
>> should be deleted. (Although empty directories can be automatically
>> detected and are not really an issue)
>
>I like '-' prefixed files alongside the files to be uploaded better than
>yet another directory hierarchy to traverse. But if you think this is
>easier to implement, I can adapt.
>
>> I like either of these better than the zero-length file because it
>> will be obvious from simple directory scanning when a file needs to
>> be deleted.
>>
>> I'm thinking that the leading '-' is the easiest to implement since
>> it is stateless.
>
>It is still zero-sized though or do you envision to have these files
>some content?
I don't see any need for content but it actually won't matter what
people put in the files.
cgf