Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A4BC127.10A3DDCE@home.com> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:39:35 -0500 From: "David A. Cobb" Organization: At-Home user X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List Subject: Keeping *.tar.gz files? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is probably a silly question, SETUP leaves the ./latest/xxxxxxxx.tar.gz files when it's finished. I always install from the Internet. Is there any benefit from keeping all those archives? I (think I) know that SETUP looks in /etc/setup/installed.db or some such to tell what is installed. Even if the archives are gone, it should see that there is no reason to update packages that haven't changed. Thanks, -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate. Public Key at: "Don't buy or use crappy software" "By the grace of God I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French, tr.] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple