My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages
LiuYan 刘研
lovetide@21cn.com
Tue Dec 1 15:15:00 GMT 2009
Hi Christopher, I've figure out one reason in my first post: Our servers have
NO internet connection, so I'd better to keep a local copy of install
packages, so that I can upgrade cygwin on servers by choose "Install from
Local Directory" setup type.
There's another reason I don't want to talk about in my first post is our
f**king government can block some websites via the f**king Great Firewall
╭∩╮(︶︿︶)╭∩╮. The sourceforge.net website had been blocked for a very long
time before Olympic 2008 for reason of different political viewpoint of a
project owner.
Currently youtube.com & facebook.com & blogspot.com &
http://python.org/download/ and many other websites are blocked in CN.
One more another reason is our internet connection speed is not very fast,
especially when I choosed a oversea mirror (There's no official mirror site
of Cygwin in CN).
That is why I keep install packages in local disk.
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:31:48AM -0800, LiuYan ?????? wrote:
>>After I viewed setup.ini, I decide to write a little script to do this.
>>Currently, it scans all the sub-directory of cygwin local package
>>directory, and delete all the old files which not listed in setup.ini
>>or setup-2.ini.
>
> You didn't respond to my previous observation.
>
> There is no reason to keep the package files around. Why not just
> delete all of them?
>
> cgf
>
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