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 > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-setup.exe%3A-Clean-historical-setup-packages-tp26569064p26593462.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple