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

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

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi Yaakov,

I received the notification that cygwinports.org was closing
immediately. This email is not complain about that. I want to thank
you for running it so long with such quality over the years.

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.

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Thanks in advance,
Shaddy

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

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

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.

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Re: 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.

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Shaddy



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