Re: offering a patch- was [Setup feature query/suggestion!]

[Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>]

Craig-

Sounds like a neat feature. Do you plan to submit a 
patch to add this functionality?

Rest of the list-

Is this something that would be appropriate for 
setup.exe to do, or should it be a separate package?
Should it be a gui, or a command line thing? I'm sure 
I could write a bash script or makefile to do this. 
Are there those on the list who would help me out by 
providing suggestions on the logic that I should use? 

I can envision a command like-

apt-get clean /cygdrive/c/cygwin

And the script would look in /cygdrive/c/cygwin 
for a "latest" and "contrib" directory, and then 
go through each package and rm the old ones. But 
rather than compare modification times or version 
numbers in the filenames, is there a sure way to 
make sure we are only removing the packages that are 
older than what is installed- maybe parsing through 
cygcheck output?

-Peter

C wrote:
> 
> Dont know if this is the right place to send too...;)
> 
> I have been using cygwin for quite a while now.....and update things quite
> regularly.....I have a vast amount of compressed packages in my /pkg
> directory.....
> 
> I am not really fussed about keeping them....and only really in a lots of
> cases want to keep the current installed package.....and so....a method of
> removing all but the installed packages.....or all installed would be
> great....and definitely save time or disk space.....dont know if this can be
> done.....or is done....or if this is the forum to suggest this to.....
> 
> for those familiar with debian...
> apt-get autoclean
> apt-get clean
> 
> is the functionality that i am after.......
> 
> Thanks for reading
> CraigT
> 
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