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Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Obsolete packages
On Jul 27 21:20, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> | It seems like maybe another change to setup.exe would be in order here
> | or maybe there could be a base package which did any cleanup required to
> | purge unneeded packages.
>
> Could setup-1.7 know if the last installation was 1.5, and simply ignore
> the installed.db?
Sounds good. It could check the last installed Cygwin version in
installed.db, or it could check if the new
"{HKLM,HKCU}/Software/Cygwin/root" registry key exists or not.
Corinna
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