cygwinports.org: determine what in your install is now EOL

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi Yaakov,

On 2017-03-28 16:51+1100, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2017-03-28 00:48, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
>> I was hoping you could give some advise however. Is there a quick way
>> to find which packages are installed, which are now no longer being
>> maintained. ie. no longer available, because cygwinports.org is gone,
>> and they never found their way into the accepted Cygwin packages.
>
> Remove the Ports repository from setup's download location (or at least
> the setup.ini files).  Then run setup again normally; any package which
> is not listed in a repository known to setup will be in the Misc category.


Thanks, that worked. The list reflects the enormity of the good work
you've put in.

-- 
Best regards,
Shaddy



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