CygUtils updates: usr-local, RemoveObsoletePackages
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
lhall@rfk.com
Mon Dec 4 10:12:00 GMT 2000
At 12:33 PM 12/4/2000, Patrick Doyle wrote:
>"Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> >
> > A lot of packages that were originally included in my usr-local package
> > at cygutils have been absorbed into the official cygwin net release. In
> > most cases, the versions distributed from sources.redhat.com are newer
> > and better, so the ones from cygutils are obsolete. I've created a new
> > usr-local package that does not include those obsolete packages -- the
> > new one (usr-local-4) is about one fourth the size of the old one
> > (usr-local-3) which was in turn half the size of the preceding one.
> > (I'm slowly succeeding in my goal to make cygutils obsolete...) The new
> > usr-local package includes:
> >
> > automake-1.4 freetype-1.3
> > ncftp-3.0.1 rxvt-2.6.2
> > unzip-5.41 wget-1.5.3
> > zip-2.3
>
>Please forgive a rather silly question, but, from where may I download
>usr-local-4? It doesn't show up in the list of setup packages. From
>your text, I expect that there is a "cygutils" site somewhere, but I'm
>not sure where to begin to look.
>
>--wpd
Try the "Related Sites" link on the Cygwin home page (www.cygwin.com).
There's a pointer there to http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ .
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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