X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A3940A0.3000606@bonhard.uklinux.net> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:14:40 +0100 From: Fergus User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin ML , Fergus Subject: Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Are you paying attention? It can be cleaned up by: > rm -rf "/h/my name/cygnus solutions/*" > Yes, yes. I know. Your internet connection is only 1 byte per second > so you desperately need to keep useless files around on disk for when > you accidentally type rm -rf /bin. For Goodness sake. There really is nothing you enjoy more than admonishing people is there, in that famously sarcastic and superior manner. My interpretation of the original post was that the user was interested in maintaining a complete but minimal resource under /release/ ... >> ... "and keeping the two most recent updates" ... ... that would thus enable a fresh installation, internet-independent, on a virgin machine. The script provided enables precisely that level of maintenance. Any user of this list is of course free to ignore answers to questions they didn't put. Love from, Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/