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Re: Deleting old versions of packages
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:32:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: Deleting old versions of packages
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Christopher Faylor writes:
> In further consideration in the thinking room, two other ideas presented
> themselves:
>
> 1) Create files with a leading '-' character to flag deletion.
That should be workable and relatively painless on all sides.
> 2) Create a !deleteme directory containing files or directories that
> should be deleted. (Although empty directories can be automatically
> detected and are not really an issue)
I like '-' prefixed files alongside the files to be uploaded better than
yet another directory hierarchy to traverse. But if you think this is
easier to implement, I can adapt.
> I like either of these better than the zero-length file because it
> will be obvious from simple directory scanning when a file needs to
> be deleted.
>
> I'm thinking that the leading '-' is the easiest to implement since
> it is stateless.
It is still zero-sized though or do you envision to have these files
some content?
Regards,
Achim.
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