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Re: Dealing with obsoleted CygUtils packages




Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
> Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote:
> >
> > How does one remove only those files in a CygUtils usr-local package
> > (e.g. zlib, libpng, jbigkit, jpeg, tiff, login and inetutils)
> > that are now obsolete because they are included in the standard Cygwin
> > distribution?
> >
> > I could:
> >
> >   * delete everything and reinstall everything

Yuck!

> >   * write a script that removes from /usr/local/... any file that also
> >     exists in /usr/...

I'd recommend against this. Often you WANT to override a package with a
newer version (or customized version) in /usr/local. Also, the packages
that I've ported from cygutils --> official status often contain
*different* files:
  cygutils : /usr/local/include/static/*
             /usr/local/lib/libfoo.a-dll
             /usr/local/lib/libfoo.a-static
  etc.

The best way is to look at my careful README's and webpages on cygutils,
and explicitly delete all the files that a given, obsoleted, package
installs.

--Chuck

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