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Re: "cleaning" donwload directories and keeping the current config?
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Javier" <fjpp at softhome dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 01:54:15 -0000
- Subject: Re: "cleaning" donwload directories and keeping the current config?
- References: <api4t0$sul$1@main.gmane.org>
Javier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Am a happy user of cygwin for quite some now.
> I love the tool, but I'd like to be able to "clean up" my install a
> little.
> Currently on my downloads dir there are a zillon sub-dirs with the
> names "Like" the different mirrors I used on a certain moment to
> download / install from the net different apps and versions and
> whatnot.
>
> I guess I could manually traverse the dirs and delete the
> all-but-most-recent files on each and every one, and then "create" a
> single tree and copy the latest version of every file.. and probably
> would mess up setup.ini, and what not... but it'd be a PITA. Is there
> a (automated, or planned) way to do it?
Get clean_setup (a perl script) from http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/
> Also, I'd like to "reinstall" the Cygwin enviroment I have now on
> another PC. Is there any "list" of the packages I have installed, so I
> can just copy the download dirs over and run setup to have them
> install? (sort like .config files, I guess)
No, you will have to install Cygwin as usual and click all the packages you
want.
Max.
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